Mesa, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Watensaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72041. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle.

Mesa within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mesa between 2000 and 2015, burning about 48 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
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	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
16 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 February 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 October 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mesa in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2016	Flash Flood	Mesa	-	Local law enforcement reported that Highway 33 south of De Valls Bluff was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
De Valls Bluff	1.9 miles	17
Thomas (historical)	2.0 miles	17
Hallsville	2.4 miles	17
Yuma (historical)	3.7 miles	17
Peppers Lake	3.9 miles	15
Hazen	4.6 miles	17
Tollville	4.8 miles	16
Siedenstricker	4.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58167. 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.