New London, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle.

New London within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1933 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS New London quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

85 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of New London between 1997 and 2019, burning about 979 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	84 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	JONES FIRE
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New London in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 funnel cloud. 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	Funnel Cloud	New London	-	A funnel cloud was spotted in the New London community. A NWS Storm Survey confirmed that it did not touch the ground as a tornado.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
McGlendon Mill	2.4 miles	16
Sawmill	4.9 miles	16
Sandy Bend	5.2 miles	16
New Union	5.3 miles	19
Careyville Landing	5.4 miles	17
Strong	5.6 miles	16
Payne	5.6 miles	16
Urbana	6.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58259. 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.