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Rover, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72860. It stands on Atcheson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rover quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Rover within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Rover between 1996 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural9
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 1999Natural12 acresOuachita National ForestALLEN FOOT #1
5 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOuachita National ForestDANVILLE MTN
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOuachita National ForestPOWER LINE FIRE
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOuachita National ForestPOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rover in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flood. 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 2008FloodRover$600,000Heavy rain caused the Fourche LaFave River at Gravelly to go above major flood level. Parts of Arkansas Highway 28 in multiple locations had to be closed because of high water. At least one person drove off into the floodwaters and lost the vehicle but not their life. Downstream, Lake Nimrod rose to its highest level ever with water more than 4.5 feet deep flowing through the emergency spillway. Some homes were isolated by floodwaters and livestock and infrastructure losses were also noted.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindRover$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRover-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRover-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRover-A weather spotter reported some large tree limbs blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRover-Some trees were blown down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindRover-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindRover-no account filed
July 2003HailRover-no account filed
November 2003HailRover-no account filed
June 2001HailRover-no account filed
May 1998HailRover-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRover-no account filed
March 1996HailRover-no account filed
March 1996HailRover-no account filed
April 1995HailRover-no account filed
November 1995HailRover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Wing3.1 miles13
Gilkey (historical)4.0 miles13
Wards Crossing4.1 miles12
Briggsville4.8 miles13
Macedonia5.2 miles17
Plainview6.5 miles12
Onyx6.6 miles13
Shark6.7 miles16

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 RoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7371672The 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 73424. 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.