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Pansy, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71665. The Survey maps it on the Herbine quadrangle.

Pansy within Cleveland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

52 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Pansy between 2001 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2016Arson/incendiarism9.3 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleveland County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pansy: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleveland County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pansy in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPansy$75,000A barn and a shop building were badly damaged.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindPansy$75,000Dozens of large trees were blown down, one of which fell on a house. Shingles were torn off houses and tin was taken off the roofs of old chicken houses. Power lines were blown down.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindPansy$35,000A large tree was blown down onto a house.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPansy$2,000A tree fell across U.S. 63.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPansy-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
May 2010HailPansy-no account filed
August 2000HailPansy-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPansy-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPansy-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPansy-no account filed
April 1996HailPansy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleveland 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
Herbine1.6 miles12
Annover (historical)3.4 miles10
McKinney (historical)3.8 miles12
Rowell4.5 miles12
Ripley (historical)4.8 miles12
Rye5.2 miles9
Scoby (historical)7.7 miles13
Calmer8.1 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 PansyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18386478The 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 57149. 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.