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Lorado, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crowley's Ridge Township. The Survey maps it on the Lorado quadrangle.

Lorado within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Lorado between 1999 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2007Debris and open burning61 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lorado: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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
Smoot's Standard Gravel Co IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorado in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2011: 2 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
February 2005HailLorado$100no account filed
June 2011HailLorado-Two inch hail damaged a metal roof of an office building and a couple of greenhouses near Lorado.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Ebenezer3.0 miles14
Walcott4.5 miles14
Walnut Corner4.7 miles14
Finch5.0 miles14
Fontaine5.1 miles14
Light5.8 miles14
Pine Knot6.9 miles15
Faulknerville7.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58087. 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.