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Sage, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72573. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Sage within Izard County

On record in Sage

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

6 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

116 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Sage between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,927 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sage: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron. 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
L.C.Crutchfield DepositIronOccurrence
Crutchfield FarmManganeseOccurrence
W.K.Tate ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Black Rock Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sage in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 2022Tornado (EF2)Sage5 hurt, $325,000This tornado started in central Izard county, just southeast of Melbourne, and tracked northeast 9.86 miles in Izard county. The tornado continued into into western Sharp county and dissipating northwest of Evening Shade. There was mostly tree damage. Several homes in and around Sage had roof damage, with a few barns and sheds heavily damaged. The worst damage was 0.5 mile east of Sage, with numerous trees snapped and a horse barn destroyed. Farther northeast, a mobile home was rolled, and a person was injured. A modular home was ripped apart about 4.0 miles west-northwest of Evening Shade. The occupants went to a nearby metal storage container for shelter, and it was rolled. There were four injuries reported here, including one serious injury.
April 2010HailSage-no account filed
August 2003HailSage-no account filed
April 1999HailSage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Bone Town2.1 miles9
Stella2.6 miles9
LaCrosse3.4 miles9
Zion3.4 miles9
Melbourne5.0 miles10
Gid5.0 miles19
Larkin5.3 miles9
Lunenburg5.7 miles10

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 SageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7399107The 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 58567. 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.