BlockPrairie Creek, Arkansas
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72938. It stands on West Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1887 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
151 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,474 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie Creek in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Creek | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 96 between Hartford and Mansfield. |
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Prairie Creek | - | Locally heavy rainfall resulted in the flooding of portions of Highway 96. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73189. 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.