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Kress City, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mars Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71845. It stands on Rawls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle.

Kress City within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Kress City between 1997 and 2019, burning about 607 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Smoking1

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
30 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism99 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kress City: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
UnkSilicaPast Producer
Gifford-Hill & CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Herndon & Buehler Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Landers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lewisville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kress City in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
October 1994Thunderstorm WindKress City$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindKress City-Trees downed along Highway 29 north of Bradley.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindKress City-A tree fell onto a vehicle several miles south of Lewisville. No injuries were reported.
February 2020Flash FloodKress City-County Road 18 was closed due to flooding.
August 2020Flash FloodKress City-AR 313 was flooded southeast of Lewisville.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKress City-A large tree was downed across CR. 5 southwest of Lewisville, Arkansas.

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
Lewisville4.7 miles16
McKamie5.9 miles12
Old Town6.4 miles14
Lerch6.6 miles12
Stamps7.6 miles12
Canfield7.8 miles15
Burton Mill8.5 miles15
Apalco8.9 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122552415The 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 57082. 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.