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Levesque, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72396. It stands on Copperas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wittsburg quadrangle. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Levesque within Cross County

On record in Levesque

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Levesque between 1998 and 2016, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1998Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCRO3161712
3 April 2004Debris and open burning56 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Levesque: 9 unknowns, 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
Adkinsson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baskins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bay Road Material Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
BrawnerSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cross County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kail PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
KilloughSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cross County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levesque in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLevesque$10,000Straight-line winds knocked down numerous trees blocking County Road 367.

Every storm recorded in Cross 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
Budsmith (historical)0.9 miles13
Wittsburg2.1 miles13
River Front2.5 miles12
Princedale3.5 miles12
Flag Lake Crossing4.0 miles13
Wynne4.4 miles12
Belknap (historical)5.2 miles13
Vanndale5.6 miles11

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 LevesqueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6535326The 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 77480. 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.