BlockRio Vista, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cypert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72010. It stands on Grassy Slough. The Survey maps it on the Augusta SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1935 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1968 USGS Augusta SW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1971 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
48 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Rio Vista between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,098 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 140 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | BALD KNOB |
| 3 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rio Vista: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rio Vista in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 6 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Rio Vista | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Rio Vista | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Flood | Rio Vista | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the Cache River at Patterson in late July. |
| June 2009 | Flood | Rio Vista | - | High White River levels in May persisted into early June. Agricultural acreage damaged could not be replanted until the river levels receded. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Rio Vista | - | High stages on the White River caused crop damages. The White River stage at Augusta remained above flood stage all month. The White River stage at Georgetown remained above flood stage from May 7th to 19th. Young soybean crops were destroyed and new plantings delayed. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Rio Vista | - | Heavy rainfall in March and April caused a prolonged high water event along the lower White River. Within the Georgetown reach of the river in White County, high water delayed planting of cropland in the floodplain. The primary impact was a delay in the planting of corn and rice, causing many farmers to switch to soybeans, and preventing the planting of many hundreds of acres that were either inundated or isolated by the high river stages within the Raft Creek bottoms south of Georgetown. Even though the river stage at Georgetown was well below flood stage, many hundreds of acres of cropland remained flooded into the summer months. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worden | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Liberty Valley | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mitchell Corner | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Keeler Corner | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bald Knob | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Russell | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Midway | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Nimmo | 7.3 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 81892. 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.