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Rosie, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rosie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72571. It stands on Goodie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salado quadrangle. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Rosie within Independence County

On record in Rosie

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Rosie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,187 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burning42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1997Natural35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rosie: 10 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnkClayUnknown
Crusher #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Point QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
River Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosie in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 2 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRosie-A wind gust of 63 mph was measured northwest of Oil Trough. Corrected.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRosie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Maple Springs2.7 miles17
Salado3.4 miles17
Rutherford3.8 miles17
Magness3.9 miles14
Huff4.7 miles15
Akron (historical)4.8 miles14
Oil Trough4.9 miles14
Southside5.0 miles17

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 RosieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7368874The 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 54216. 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.