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Lee Creek, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72934. It stands on Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rudy NE quadrangle.

Lee Creek within Crawford 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Lee Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,077 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 91 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/incendiarism91
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDRIFTWOOD
11 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1993Arson/incendiarism55 acresOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
23 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
22 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE WATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lee Creek in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996HailLee Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Natural Dam3.3 miles16
Anna (historical)4.6 miles16
Rosedale (historical)5.2 miles16
Stop (historical)5.9 miles15
Davidson6.9 miles16
Barcelona7.0 miles16
Cedarville7.8 miles17
Hobbtown7.8 miles17

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 Lee CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19605589The 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 77468. 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.