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Moro Bay, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 71651. It stands on LaBaum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moro Bay quadrangle.

Moro Bay within Bradley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Moro Bay between 1998 and 2019, burning about 896 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural12
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Natural310 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMORO BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moro Bay in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Moro Bay$25,000This tornado exited Calhoun County southeast of Artesian and entered Bradley County north-northwest of Moro Bay. Trees were blown down on timber land owned by a large timber company.
July 2022Flash FloodMoro Bay-A Moro Bay State Park employee reported a few roads within the state park were covered by water.
May 2016HailMoro Bay-Moro Bay State Park reported close to penny size hail.
June 2016Heavy RainMoro Bay-Water was over several roads in the area. Six inches of rain fell before 7 am.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindMoro Bay-Damage was noted at a campsite.
June 2014HailMoro Bay-no account filed
March 2011HailMoro Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Hilo5.6 miles17
Marsden6.9 miles18
Pirlte (historical)8.6 miles18
Jersey8.6 miles17
Sturgis (historical)11.2 miles18
Ingalls11.8 miles18
Gravelridge11.9 miles18
Vick13.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58216. 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.