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Kittle, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pleasant Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72513. The Survey maps it on the Agnos quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Kittle within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

181 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Kittle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,401 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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
Debris and open burning77
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use8

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kittle: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayOccurrence
Ash Flat QuarryStoneProducer
Ferris QuarryStoneProspect
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kittle in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2010Thunderstorm WindKittle$5,000Several trees were blown down between Kittle and Lake Omaha.
April 2026HailKittle-Quarter-sized hail fell near the town of Kittle.
August 2024Heavy RainKittle-A county official one mile north of Kittle measured 5.00 inches of rain.
March 2017HailKittle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Agnos3.4 miles9
Heart6.0 miles9
Saddle6.1 miles9
Glencoe6.6 miles9
French7.3 miles9
Morriston8.1 miles11
Baker Ford8.4 miles7
Many Islands9.9 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KittleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29095268The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58023. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.