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Rubicon, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dyer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72019. The Survey maps it on the Lonsdale NE quadrangle.

Rubicon within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

117 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Rubicon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 944 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rubicon in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 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
February 2012HailRubicon-Hail was covering the ground on Highway 9 between Crows and Paron.
October 2022HailRubicon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Crows1.2 miles15
Owensville3.1 miles15
Alum (historical)3.2 miles19
Bland5.7 miles19
Nance5.7 miles15
Kentucky5.8 miles19
Grape6.0 miles19
Slocomb (historical)6.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58555. 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.