Overcup, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. The Survey maps it on the McCrory quadrangle.

Overcup within Woodruff 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.

1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Mc Crory quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Overcup between 1992 and 2016, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4

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
7 September 1999	Smoking	29 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	COLE
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Smoking	8.9 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	STUCKEY
7 June 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 March 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 February 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HOLDER 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overcup in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2011: 6 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2008	Flood	Overcup	$500,000	Heavy rain caused the Cache River at Patterson to go above flood stage. The river was above flood stage to start the event and continued as three significant rainfall events occurred during the month to refresh the flooding. County roads were damaged by the flooding and agricultural losses were to pastures and winter wheat. The flooding continued into April.
December 2011	Flood	Overcup	$10,000	A series of heavy rain events in November and early December caused the Cache River at Patterson to remain above flood stage throughout December.
September 2009	Flood	Overcup	-	Late August rainfall, combined with additional rain in September, kept the Cache River near Patterson above flood stage for most of the month. Additional cropland was flooded downstream of the gage near Cotton Plant with additional soybean acreage lost.
November 2009	Flood	Overcup	-	Heavy rainfall at the end of October allowed the Cache River at Patterson to remain above flood stage into late November. Some crops were damaged, while others were lost altogether. In addition, harvesting was greatly delayed, further decreasing crop yield.
October 2009	Flood	Overcup	-	Rainfall in September and October kept the Cache River near Patterson above flood stage for the entire month. Additional cropland was flooded downstream of the gage near Cotton Plant with additional soybean acreage lost.
May 2008	Flood	Overcup	-	Heavy rainfall in April caused a prolonged high water event along the Cache River. Within the Patterson reach of the river in Woodruff County, high water delayed planting of cropland in the floodplain. The primary impact was a delay in the planting of corn and rice, causing farmers to possibly switch to soybeans.
November 2004	Flash Flood	Overcup	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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
Simmons (historical)	0.9 miles	10
Goodrich	1.6 miles	10
Pleasant Grove	3.7 miles	11
Union	4.1 miles	12
Riverside	4.2 miles	10
Fitzhugh	4.9 miles	12
New Salem	5.7 miles	12
Taylorville (historical)	6.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70366. 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.