LaGrue, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Keaton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72003. The Survey maps it on the De Witt NE quadrangle.

LaGrue within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS De Witt NE quadrangle1:24000
1970 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of LaGrue between 2000 and 2019, burning about 126 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 August 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	PINE BARK WILDFIRE
4 November 2003	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 October 2000	Debris and open burning	36 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaGrue in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrue	-	A trees was down, blocking Boston Lane.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrue	-	Considerable tree and power line damage occurred near the intersection of Hwy. 33 and 153 west of Crocketts Bluff.
August 2008	Hail	Lagrue	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Plainview	2.5 miles	13
Immanuel	3.5 miles	13
Mount Adams	4.3 miles	13
Sassafras (historical)	4.5 miles	13
Casscoe	5.1 miles	16
Crocketts Bluff	5.4 miles	17
Almyra	5.6 miles	13
Preston Ferry	5.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62235. 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.