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Kizer, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71826. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle.

Kizer within Lafayette 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

81 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Kizer between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,008 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning20
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
30 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kizer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kizer in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Kizer$50,000A brief EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 90 mph touched down and tracked northeast to the west of Lake Erling, starting along Hood Road and lifting just after crossing Highway 160. The tornado could have begun slightly before Hood Road, but many trees crossing that road limited the survey team's access farther to the southwest. Damage was mostly to trees in the form of uproots, trunk snaps, and downing of large limbs. ||There were also a multitude of trees downed to the northeast in a widespread area around Lake Erling. Some trees produced structural damage as they fell on residences and the damage was attributed to straight line winds of 60 to 80 mph, not the tornado.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKizer-Trees were downed on Highway 29 near the Louisiana line. Trees were also downed on CR 71 near Shiloh Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindKizer-A tree was downed on Highway 29 near the Arkansas/Louisiana state line.
March 2016Flash FloodKizer-Hwy. 9 was flooded and closed west and southwest of Bradley, Arkansas.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindKizer-A tree was downed on County Road southeast of Bradley, Arkansas.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindKizer-Several trees downed south of town.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Bradley2.3 miles17
Walnut Hill3.3 miles17
Gin City4.3 miles17
Grants6.3 miles15
State Line6.6 miles17
Burton Mill7.7 miles15
Canale8.0 miles15
Canfield8.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57080. 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.