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Sand Gap, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72837. It lies near Sollys Knob. The Survey maps it on the Sand Gap quadrangle. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

Sand Gap within Pope County

On record in Sand Gap

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Sand Gap between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,532 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROAD SIDE
17 May 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsKINGS BLUFF
9 April 2006Natural37 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCOLEMAN
7 April 2006Natural130 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSULPHUR CREEK
6 April 2004Debris and open burning20 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHEFFLEY
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROBERTSON ROAD
14 April 2006Arson/incendiarism850 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSULPHUR CREEK #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sand Gap: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pelsor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Gap in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2008Flash FloodSand Gap$15,000Flooding occurred across the county. Arkansas Highway 7 at Arkansas Highway 27 in Dover was closed due to high water.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSand Gap-A few large trees were reported down in the area.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindSand Gap-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Bertha3.2 miles14
Freeman Springs4.2 miles15
Victor6.9 miles15
Simpson8.0 miles15
Treat8.2 miles14
Raspberry8.9 miles22
Smyrna10.5 miles22
Solo11.6 miles21

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 Sand GapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7415790The 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 78290. 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.