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Lakeside, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bradley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71701. The Survey maps it on the East Camden quadrangle.

Lakeside within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

137 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside between 1997 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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 2006Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita 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 Lakeside: 4 unknowns. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 2 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
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Lakeside$350,000This tornado moved out of Calhoun County about 4 1/3 miles west of Locust Bayou and re-entered Ouachita County about 2 1/4 miles south-southwest of Lakeside. In Ouachita County, the tornado tore part of the roof off a house, damaged a church roof, and caused trees to fall on four houses. The tornado then moved through a trailer park, where falling trees destroyed nine of the homes and caused major damage to three others. Otherwise, hundreds of trees were blown down, as were a number of power lines. The tornado then exited Ouachita County in East Camden and moved into the Calhoun County portion of the same town.
December 2009FloodLakeside$25,000Heavy rainfall on December 23rd and 24th allowed the Ouachita River at Camden to rapidly rise above flood stage on Christmas Eve. The river remained above flood stage through early January. Some crops suffered damage.
January 2010FloodLakeside$5,000Heavy rainfall on the 23rd of December, 2009 caused the Ouachita River at Camden to rise above flood stage on the evening on the 24th of December, remaining above flood stage through the afternoon of the 7th.

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
East Camden2.1 miles16
Camark4.0 miles15
Camden5.1 miles17
Kent5.2 miles15
Warner5.2 miles15
Cullendale5.2 miles17
Vanduzer5.4 miles15
Harmony Grove5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57083. 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.