BlockPastoria, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pastoria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72152. It stands on Smiths Bayou. The Survey maps it on the White Hall quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Pastoria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1935 USGS Pastoria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS White Hall quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1985 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pastoria between 2001 and 2011, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 January 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pastoria in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Flood | Pastoria | - | Flooding continued along the Arkansas River from very heavy rainfall in May. The Arkansas River at the Pine Bluff remained above flood stage from the 28th of May through the evening hours of the 7th of June. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pastoria | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Pastoria | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dexter | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sherrill | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Plain View | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Baldwin | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Samples | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wright | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Eastwood | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Warbritton | 5.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57153. 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.