Plata, Arkansas

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.

• 1906 USGS Caddo Gap quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1936 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:62500
• 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Caddo Gap quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Arkadelphia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Plata between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,647 acres in total. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hickory Station
• Alamo
• Lucky (historical)
• Mazarn
• Hickory Station (historical)
• Ophir

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Plata: 6 unknowns, 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plata in 1 storm report in 2024: 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.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73118. 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.