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Rottaken, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Big Rock Township. It stands on Lorance Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodson quadrangle.

Rottaken within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

113 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Rottaken between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,536 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rottaken: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Sweet Home ClayAluminumUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rottaken in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Rottaken1 hurt, $450,000A tornado touched down near the Arkansas River levee and tracked through the Lands End Plantation. On the plantation, the trailer of a tractor-trailer truck was overturned, an old cotton gin was destroyed, and a 150 year-old pecan orchard was severely damaged. After leaving the plantation, numerous large trees were blown down and outbuildings were damaged. A mobile home was destroyed and its occupant was badly injured. Another mobile home was knocked off its foundation. A 250-gallon propane tank was ripped from its foundation and came unplugged. The tornado exited Pulaski County north-northeast of Wampoo and continued into Lonoke County west-southwest of Willow Belle.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRottaken-Several large pine trees were snapped, along with large tree limbs snapped off of trees.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Wrightsville2.0 miles18
Woodson3.0 miles18
Tafton3.2 miles18
Bingham3.4 miles22
Dickey (historical)4.6 miles18
Hensley4.7 miles18
Ironton5.4 miles26
Estes5.5 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122589870The 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 54228. 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.