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Rohwer, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71670. The Survey maps it on the Kelso quadrangle. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Rohwer within Desha County

On record in Rohwer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rohwer between 2002 and 2011, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 October 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 October 2010Debris and open burning130 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDESHA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rohwer in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 hail. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRohwer$50,000Roofs were peeled back or blown off of several outbuildings and several trees were snapped.
March 2026HailRohwer-Lime-sized hail fell in the town of Rohwer.
July 2021Heavy RainRohwer-The COOP observer at Rohwer reported 6.55 inches of rain in the last 24 hours ending at 845 AM CST.
July 2021Flash FloodRohwer-Highway 1 was under water and imipassible, and eventually closed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRohwer-A few trees were down in the area.
May 2015Heavy RainRohwer-Heavy rainfall of 2.23 inches was observed.
August 2012Heavy RainRohwer-Rainfall measured 4.99 inches in 24 hours.
June 2007Flash FloodRohwer-Water was reported over one lane of Arkansas Highway 1.
March 2018HailRohwer-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindRohwer-no account filed
April 2000Flash FloodRohwer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Duce1.1 miles13
Kelso2.5 miles13
Zellner (historical)3.6 miles13
Lucca Landing4.5 miles15
Kurdo (historical)4.7 miles13
McArthur5.8 miles13
Bogota (historical)6.5 miles13
Littles (historical)7.7 miles13

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 RohwerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7359850The 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 58514. 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.