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Old Joe, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 11. It lies in ZIP code area 72658. It lies near Naked Joe Knob. The Survey maps it on the Norfork Dam South quadrangle.

Old Joe within Baxter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

99 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Old Joe between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,447 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
19 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2020Debris and open burning9.8 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPRETTY HILL
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1995Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsKNOB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Old Joe: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Iron Oxide Pigments, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
L. R. Cox MineIron Oxide PigmentsUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Baxter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Joe in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOld Joe$2,000Part of a tree was blown down on Arkansas 5.
June 2017HailOld Joe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baxter 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
Berry (historical)0.6 miles19
Hopewell2.1 miles19
McPhearson2.6 miles17
Chastain (historical)2.6 miles17
Herron2.9 miles17
Norfork3.7 miles17
Culp4.5 miles19
Jordan4.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72932. 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.