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Point Cedar, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71929. It stands on Point Cedar Mountains. The Survey maps it on the Point Cedar quadrangle.

Point Cedar within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

143 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Point Cedar between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,762 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 52 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
Arson/incendiarism52
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Point Cedar: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Clay. 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
GlenwoodClayPast Producer
Glenwood #2Slate, DimensionProducer
Price-Williams Lead-Zinc MineLead, ZincPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Point Cedar in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindPoint Cedar$5,000Some trees were blown down.
March 2026Flash FloodPoint Cedar-High water blocked Arkansas Highway 84 in several locations.
April 2026HailPoint Cedar-Tennis-ball sized hail fell near Point Cedar.
April 2008Flash FloodPoint Cedar-Parts of Lake DeGray State Park were under water.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Point Cedar-A weak tornado touched down briefly 1 mile northwest of Point Cedar. Damage was limited to some trees being blown down.
August 2012HailPoint Cedar-no account filed
March 2010HailPoint Cedar-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindPoint Cedar-no account filed
December 2002HailPoint Cedar-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPoint Cedar-no account filed
October 1995HailPoint Cedar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Wayside (historical)1.7 miles8
Beaton2.9 miles8
Mount Moriah5.3 miles8
Lambert5.5 miles8
Bonnerdale5.6 miles7
Cross Roads6.0 miles7
Bismarck7.3 miles8
Oak Bower8.1 miles8

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 Q122590841The 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 53639. 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.