BlockRed Star, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72752. The Survey maps it on the Boston quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Boston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Red Star between 1995 and 2016, burning about 572 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | FLORIDA |
| 24 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | MAD18797965 |
| 22 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 176 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | TOWER ROAD |
| 8 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 61 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GLORY HOLE |
| 5 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Star in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Star | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Red Star | - | A tornado uprooted a few trees and snapped some large tree limbs. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 95 mph. The tornado continued into Newton County, Arkansas. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Townsley (historical) | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Venus | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Weathers | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pettigrew | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Jordan (historical) | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Reynolds | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Dutton | 9.3 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73259. 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.