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Love Creek, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Caddo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71962. It stands on Love Creek. The Survey maps it on the Okolona North quadrangle.

Love Creek within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Love Creek between 1993 and 2019, burning about 354 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Love Creek: 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
Delight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Love Creek in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash flood. 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 2009Flash FloodLove Creek$10,000Arkansas Highway 182 between Okolona and Gurdon was closed.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Bethel1.5 miles10
Okolona2.3 miles15
Boswell2.3 miles10
Smyrna2.8 miles10
Haretown3.2 miles10
Dobyville3.4 miles10
Halfway4.1 miles10
Meeks Settlement4.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57098. 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.