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Rupert, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wheeler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near Pine Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Alread quadrangle.

Rupert within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Rupert between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,027 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural2

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
18 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2016Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rupert in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 flash 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
May 2013Flash FloodRupert$175,000Heavy rain caused considerable damage to county roads and bridges.
June 1994HailRupert-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Alread0.6 miles15
Rex2.3 miles16
Copeland3.9 miles15
Williams Gulf (historical)4.6 miles16
Latham (historical)4.7 miles16
Archey Valley4.7 miles15
Dabney5.1 miles22
Chimes5.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58559. 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.