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Lost Corner, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72080. It lies near Oak Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lost Corner quadrangle. It stands 1,683 feet above sea level.

Lost Corner within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 21 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lost Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
26 August 2020Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE OAK
5 July 2013Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEASTFORK
26 July 2011Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTRIGGER
3 June 2012Natural10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMAC
4 April 2016Debris and open burning5.6 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsARMSTEAD
2 April 2005Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCARR
8 March 2017Debris and open burning130 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEASTFORK II
6 March 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lost Corner: 1 unknown. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lost Corner in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
March 2020Tornado (EF1)Lost Corner$20,000The tornado first hit on a ridgeline around 1500 feet near Napier Hollow where it downed a few trees. The tornado crossed Napier Hollow and moved back up a ridge to Dabney Road, a tree was blown onto a barn, and another smaller tree was blown onto a travel trailer. The tornado crossed Dabney Road and moved through a field and down the ridge. On Darrell Road, a storage shed was destroyed, and the roof was blown into some trees which were subsequently uprooted. The roof of a storage barn was damaged.

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Okay (historical)1.2 miles21
Northwood (historical)2.7 miles21
Gabriel (historical)5.0 miles21
Nogo5.3 miles22
Solo6.9 miles21
Smyrna7.1 miles22
Retta7.2 miles21
Walnut Grove8.7 miles16

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 Lost CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6683951The 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 57097. 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.