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Ramsey, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71742. The Survey maps it on the Hopeville quadrangle.

Ramsey within Dallas County

On record in Ramsey

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ramsey between 1997 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2006Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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 Ramsey: 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramsey in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Flash FloodRamsey$5,000Dallas County Roads 101 and 103 east of Arkansas Highway 8 were under water.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindRamsey-Trees were downed.
March 2011HailRamsey-no account filed
March 2011HailRamsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Forrest Bonner2.5 miles16
Eagletie2.9 miles16
Bucksnort4.7 miles12
Jacinto4.9 miles16
Beech Grove7.0 miles12
Oakhurst (historical)7.3 miles16
Ivan7.3 miles12
Cruse (historical)8.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58457. 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.