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Kirkland, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bridge Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71751. It stands on Pine Log Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louann quadrangle.

Kirkland within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

197 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Kirkland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 793 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 48 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkland in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 4 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 2023HailKirkland-no account filed
April 2020HailKirkland-no account filed
December 2002HailKirkland-no account filed
May 1999HailKirkland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Liberty1.4 miles16
Louann2.0 miles16
Elliott3.0 miles16
Frenchport4.3 miles16
Cross Roads5.0 miles16
Pace City5.3 miles15
Rendezvous6.6 miles17
Standard Umpstead7.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 50883. 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.