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Retta, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72843. It lies near Crouch Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Solo quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Retta within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 21 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

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Retta between 1995 and 2020, burning about 844 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCLUB RICK
30 September 2000Debris and open burning50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMILL CREEK
27 August 1995Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGOOCH'S CHAPEL
26 August 2020Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE OAK
2 August 1998Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGOING HOME
30 July 2011Natural5.3 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCLUB ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Retta in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020Tornado (EF1)Retta-This tornado began near the Highway 27 bridge over the Middle Fork of Illinois Bayou. It uprooted and snapped several trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRetta-Trees were blown down near the intersection of State Hwy 27 and Lindsey Motorway.

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Walnut Grove2.9 miles16
Hector3.7 miles16
Boiling Springs (historical)3.8 miles16
Laurel (historical)4.1 miles15
Leta (historical)4.4 miles16
Solo4.9 miles21
Tag5.0 miles15
Welcome5.2 miles16

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 RettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7317111The 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 73278. 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.