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Orion, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Simpson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72132. It stands on Jerning Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cane Creek quadrangle.

Orion within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

176 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Orion between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,937 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 67 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/incendiarism67
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orion in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOrion$25,000Two large trees blew down, knocking down power lines. Siding and underpinning on mobile homes were damaged.
February 2018FloodOrion-Arkansas State Police Troop K reported Highway 46 N near Stagecoach Road blocked due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Walnut Ridge5.1 miles12
Obin (historical)5.3 miles10
Ico (historical)5.3 miles10
Cane Creek5.7 miles10
Amber (historical)6.8 miles12
Center Grove11.0 miles9
Junet11.1 miles9
Clear Lake11.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58310. 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.