BlockRotan, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72370. It stands on Waller Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1972 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rotan in 2008, burning about 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 29 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rotan in 1 storm report in 2025: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rotan | $60,000 | At least six power poles were snapped along Hwy 61 between Osceola and Hwy 198. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holt (historical) | 0.6 miles | 9 | |
| Grider | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Driver | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Upper Nodena (historical) | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Carson Lake | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Sans Souci | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Butler | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Wilson | 4.7 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58526. 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.