BlockMeneshea, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fogleman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72384. It stands on Bellhammer Slough. The Survey maps it on the Frenchmans Bayou quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1970 USGS Frenchmans Bayou quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Meneshea between 1996 and 2015, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | ARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE |
| 8 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.4 acres | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | NEW SHOP |
| 1 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge | UNIT D-18WILDFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meneshea in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meneshea | - | Straight line winds knocked down a few power poles along Highway 61 between Frenchmans Bayou and Turrell. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stacy | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Thomas (historical) | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Engledale (historical) | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Gilmore | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Lambethville | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Turrell | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Heafer | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Clarkedale | 8.2 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122561032 | The 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 58164. 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.