BlockPostelle, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hicksville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72366. The Survey maps it on the Pine City quadrangle. It stands 55 feet above sea level.
On record in Postelle
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Little Cypress Creek Bridgelisted 1995
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 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.
- 1940 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Pine City quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Postelle between 1998 and 2015, burning about 622 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 71 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 96 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 319 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Postelle in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Postelle | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several television antennas in Postelle and Elaine. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Postelle | $25,000 | The tornado moved into Phillips County from Monroe County and continued to move northeast. A large storage shed was tossed over a farm building. A few trees were knocked down and minor tree damage was noted. A couple of irrigation pivots were overturned. Some grain bins were also dented towards the top. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Postelle | - | Scattered trees and power lines were knocked down by straight line winds across Phillips 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hicks | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hicksville | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Marvell | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Turner | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Cypert | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Turkey Scratch | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Watkins Corner | 7.8 miles | 16 | |
| Kingtown | 8.6 miles | 16 |
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 Postelle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7234144 | The 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 58415. 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.