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Luber, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Tater Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Luber within Stone County

On record in Luber

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Luber between 1999 and 2020, burning about 495 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Arson/incendiarism19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2010Arson/incendiarism26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luber in 1 storm report in 2003: 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
August 2003HailLuber-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Hanover3.4 miles14
Kahoka (historical)5.2 miles15
Parma6.0 miles16
East Richwoods6.2 miles14
West Richwoods6.3 miles14
Turkey Creek6.7 miles14
Chalybeate Springs6.7 miles15
Mountain View7.3 miles14

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 LuberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6695184The 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 58097. 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.