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Osage, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72611. It stands on Kenner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osage quadrangle.

Osage within Carroll County

On record in Osage

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Osage between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,066 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Natural50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Osage$30,000This tornado developed along and just west of Highway 103, south of Osage. It moved northeast across Highway 412, and dissipated after crossing County Road 905. The tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees, and damaged outbuildings. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
December 1999Thunderstorm WindOsage$100Thunderstorm winds blew large tree limbs down.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Osage-This tornado was recorded by a KNWA tower cam, with time stamps provided by KNWA to the NWS Tulsa. The location was estimated based on radar data for the period of time the tornado occurred in the video recording. The path is in heavily wooded terrain, inaccessible by road, so no damage is known to have occurred with the tornado. Thus, the rating of EF-unknown.
April 2011Flash FloodOsage-Water was reported over a bridge on County Road 982.
March 2006HailOsage-no account filed
April 2002HailOsage-no account filed
April 1998HailOsage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Gobbler2.8 miles13
Delmar3.7 miles13
Conner4.6 miles13
Rudd4.8 miles13
Dryfork4.9 miles13
Dean6.9 miles13
Carrollton7.1 miles12
Rule7.2 miles12

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 OsageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48861145The 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 77924. 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.