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Lisbon, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71762. It stands on Bert Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lisbon quadrangle.

Lisbon within Union County

On record in Lisbon

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 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

89 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Lisbon between 1997 and 2019, burning about 546 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Lisbon$10,000An EF1 tornado touched down southwest of Smackover, Arkansas downing several large trees and snapping others. A roof was also peeled back from a home southwest of town. The path width was 75 yards wide with a path length near 6 miles. The tornado continued into Ouachita County.
March 2024Flash FloodLisbon-Several reports of flooding in El Dorado and the nearby Lisbon community.
July 2022Flash FloodLisbon-Manhole covers were floating away due to floodwaters throughout El Dorado. Widespread flooding was observed across much of Union County.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLisbon-A large tree was blown down near the 4700 block of Mount Holly Highway. A vehicle ran into the tree was no injuries were reported.
April 2019Flash FloodLisbon-Several pictures and videos of flooding across the city of El Dorado was posted to the KATV-TV Facebook page.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLisbon-Damaging thunderstorm winds uprooted a few trees, snapped large limbs, and blew shingles and a portion of metal roofing off of a couple of homes on Lisbon Road near the Lisbon community.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindLisbon-A tree was blown down on Lisbon Road northwest of El Dorado, Arkansas.
December 2009Flash FloodLisbon-Numerous roads were underwater across the county including 335, 172 and Mount Holly Road. ASP Troop F also reported Highway 167 was closed in several places.
February 2008HailLisbon-Quarter sized hail fell in the Lisbon community.
March 1996Tornado (F0)Lisbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Dumas City3.9 miles16
Cairo4.3 miles14
Mount Holly7.1 miles16
Marysville7.6 miles13
Shuler7.6 miles13
Sandy Land7.9 miles17
Smackover8.4 miles17
Newell8.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77506. 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.