Rawls, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71646. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle.

Rawls within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2002 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

104 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Rawls between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,080 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
29 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
29 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rawls in 2 storm reports in 2011: 1 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawls	$3,000	A couple of trees were down east of Meridian along Highway 133 and 425.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Rawls	-	This tornado began in Morehouse Parish, LA before crossing into Ashley County, AR. The tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees along the path, a mobile home was damaged, and roof damage occurred to a few structures. Similar damage occurred after the tornado crossed the state line into AR. Maximum winds were around 110 mph. Total path length was 12 miles.

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elon (historical)	1.8 miles	11
Gulledge	4.2 miles	11
Meridian	6.8 miles	11
Berlin	6.9 miles	11
White	7.5 miles	11
Rolfe Junction	7.9 miles	11
Matoka (historical)	8.0 miles	16
South Crossett	8.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58466. 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.