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Moscow, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71601. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Moscow within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Moscow between 2005 and 2016, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 November 2005Debris and open burning46 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 October 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 October 2010Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 October 2015Debris and open burning1.6 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 January 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moscow: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
Clous-DobsonManganeseProspect
Haddock ProspectManganesePast Producer1917

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moscow in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2000: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1993Thunderstorm WindMoscow$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and overturned a cotton trailer.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMoscow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Linwood0.5 miles15
Tamo3.1 miles15
Noble Lake3.6 miles15
Dolton (historical)4.0 miles15
Cottondale4.2 miles15
Hooker4.9 miles16
Sweden4.9 miles16
Linn (historical)5.3 miles16

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 MoscowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6915432The 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 52230. 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.