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Kimball, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Wilmot Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71676. The Survey maps it on the Wilmot quadrangle.

Kimball within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kimball between 1992 and 2016, burning about 166 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Debris and open burning60 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeFARM FIRE #3
18 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2011Natural14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2013Natural1.0 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeOVERFLOW WHEAT LIGHTNING
13 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Natural14 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeOXBONE
19 November 1992Arson/incendiarism54 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOVO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimball in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Thunderstorm WindKimball$8,000A few downed trees damaged some roofs around Wilmot.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKimball$7,000A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindKimball$3,000A power line was blown down.
April 2009HailKimball-Penny size hail fell in Wilmot with some possibly larger stones.
April 2006HailKimball-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wilmot2.9 miles17
Matoka (historical)6.0 miles16
Millers Chapel7.0 miles12
Parkdale7.4 miles17
Berlin9.0 miles11
Sunshine11.9 miles16
Elon (historical)12.9 miles11
Rawls13.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58018. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.