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Saddle, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Myatt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72554. It stands on Mill Pond Branch. The Survey maps it on the Agnos quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Saddle within Fulton County

On record in Saddle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Saddle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,407 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saddle: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saddle in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 2011Thunderstorm WindSaddle$5,000Large trees were uprooted around Saddle.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindSaddle-Large limbs were blown down in the area.
March 2008Flash FloodSaddle-Low water crossings across the area were flooded.
September 2006Tornado (F2)Saddle-A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Fulton County. The tornado tracked from 5 miles east of Saddle to 7.5 miles southeast of Mammoth Spring. The tornado destroyed a home, and caused damage to several other homes. Hundreds of trees were downed, with one tree on a pickup truck. The tornado continued into northern Sharp County.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSaddle-Some trees were knocked down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSaddle-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
June 2018HailSaddle-no account filed
July 2008HailSaddle-no account filed
February 2006HailSaddle-no account filed
April 2006HailSaddle-no account filed
April 2006HailSaddle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
French2.9 miles9
Baker Ford4.4 miles7
Heart4.6 miles9
Agnos6.1 miles9
Kittle6.1 miles9
Many Islands6.3 miles7
Camp6.5 miles8
King6.8 miles7

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 SaddleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7397680The 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 58564. 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.