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Pace City, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bridge Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71751. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buena Vista quadrangle.

Pace City within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

81 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Pace City between 1998 and 2019, burning about 338 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking2
Natural2
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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1998Natural16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pace City in 3 storm reports in 2010: 2 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
October 2010Thunderstorm WindPace City$1,000A tree was blown down in Pace City.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindPace City$1,000A tree was blown down in Pace City.
October 2010HailPace City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Liberty4.0 miles16
Kirkland5.3 miles16
Elliott5.8 miles16
Buena Vista6.3 miles15
Louann6.4 miles16
Ogemaw7.3 miles14
Stephens8.4 miles14
Frenchport8.5 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122571542The 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 58316. 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.