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Parkers Chapel, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in El Dorado Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. The Survey maps it on the El Dorado West quadrangle.

Parkers Chapel within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

108 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Parkers Chapel between 1999 and 2019, burning about 777 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism17
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Parkers Chapel: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Bromine, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
El Dorado Monument WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
El Dorado Sulphur PlantSulfurProducer
Bounds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jet Asphalt & Rock CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ouchita Aggregate Co,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkansas Chemicals,IncBrominePast Producer
Great Lakes Bromine Plant & MineBromineProducer
Great Lakes Chemical MarysvilleBrominePast Producer
Michigan Bromine Plant & MineBromineProducer
UnkBrominePast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkers Chapel in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 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
July 1995HailParkers Chapel-no account filed
July 1995HailParkers Chapel-no account filed
June 1994HailParkers Chapel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Newell1.3 miles19
Pickering2.6 miles19
Foster Hill3.3 miles18
Griffin3.6 miles14
Cargile3.8 miles19
El Dorado3.9 miles19
Lamberton4.4 miles18
Wesson4.4 miles13

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 Q122591292The 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 59788. 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.