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Point Peter, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72675. It lies near Scott Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Eula quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Point Peter within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

133 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Point Peter between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,121 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 57 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/incendiarism57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning14
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking1

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
31 August 1998Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Natural4.2 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsAUGUST
2 August 2012Natural1.2 acresBuffalo National RiverMCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
24 July 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresBuffalo National RiverHANGOVER BLUFF
20 July 2012Naturalunder an acreBuffalo National RiverMT. HERSEY
13 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverWOOLUMPILE
7 June 1997Arson/incendiarism120 acresBuffalo National RiverFLAT ROCK
20 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCAVE CREEK CHUTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Point Peter: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
ConfederateLead, ZincPast Producer
Old Granby MineLead, Zinc, DolomitePast Producer
Ragged BreechesZinc, LeadPast Producer
Belle of Wichita MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Bald HillZincPast Producer
MarkhamZincOccurrence
YountZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Point Peter in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
September 2014Tornado (EF0)Point Peter$10,000Trees were uprooted or snapped off.

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Woolum1.8 miles20
Hall (historical)2.3 miles20
Horn Mountain (historical)2.5 miles20
Eula3.7 miles20
Dry Creek (historical)4.0 miles20
Blanco5.5 miles19
Snowball5.7 miles19
Clutes (historical)6.2 miles16

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 Point PeterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14681371The 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 73146. 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.