Red Leaf, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 71653. The Survey maps it on the Red Leaf quadrangle.

Red Leaf within Chicot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1939 USGS Refuge quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Red Leaf quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Red Leaf between 2006 and 2010, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
13 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 October 2010	Smoking	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Leaf in 1 storm report in 2014: 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Leaf	-	A storm chaser had reported 60 to 70 mph inflow winds with a rain wrapped funnel cloud to the east of Red Leaf.

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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
Shives	1.4 miles	15
Sunnyside	1.7 miles	15
Eminence	3.1 miles	14
Fairview	3.5 miles	13
Myrtle Grove	4.8 miles	13
Chanticleer	4.8 miles	13
Jennie	4.9 miles	13
Lakeport	4.9 miles	14

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 Red Leaf	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18393761	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 78145. 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.