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Poughkeepsie, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in North Big Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72569. It stands on Runnels Branch. The Survey maps it on the Poughkeepsie quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Poughkeepsie within Sharp County

On record in Poughkeepsie

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Poughkeepsie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,456 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning28
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1

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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Poughkeepsie: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
Fugate HollowZinc, DolomiteProspect
UnkZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnkZinc, LeadPast Producer
Lawrence Stone PropertyIronOccurrence
UnkIronUnknown
UnkIronProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poughkeepsie in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie$225,000Roofs were peeled off houses and sheds. A chicken house suffered major damage. Several sheds were lifted off their foundations and thrown into fences. Power poles were snapped in half and trees were uprooted.
July 2010Flash FloodPoughkeepsie$1,000Several low water crossings flooded, and minor street flooding occurred.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie-Trees were down and limbs were snapped. A few power pole cross arms were broken.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie-Some trees were blown down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie-Some trees were blown down.
June 2008HailPoughkeepsie-no account filed
April 2002HailPoughkeepsie-no account filed
June 1998HailPoughkeepsie-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPoughkeepsie-no account filed
April 1994HailPoughkeepsie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Reed (historical)2.8 miles8
Nelsonville2.8 miles8
Bridgeport (historical)2.9 miles8
Balboa (historical)3.2 miles8
Amateur (historical)5.1 miles8
Center5.3 miles9
Calamine6.2 miles8
Evening Shade7.4 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.

Wikipedia article on PoughkeepsieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7235482The 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 78088. 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.