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Rocky Comfort, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 71836. It lies near Lime Rock Hill. The Survey maps it on the Foreman quadrangle.

Rocky Comfort within Little River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort between 1997 and 2019, burning about 915 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning10
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Little River County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort: 29 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arkansas Louisiana Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Foreman Limestone QuarryStone, ClayProducer
Foreman Quarry & PlantSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkansas Lousiana LimesLimestone, GeneralProducer
Rocky ComfortLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
J DreherSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Little River County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Comfort in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRocky Comfort-Several trees were downed across Little River County.
April 2009HailRocky Comfort-Hail was reported in the Wallace community.

Every storm recorded in Little River 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
Foreman1.2 miles12
Wallace3.0 miles11
Pankov3.5 miles11
Lanesport5.2 miles12
Arkinda6.2 miles11
Arden6.4 miles11
Eastport7.0 miles11
Wades Chapel7.6 miles11

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 Rocky ComfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18390890The 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 60170. 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.