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Saratoga, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71859. It lies near Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Springs South quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Saratoga within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Saratoga between 2000 and 2017, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2011Arson/incendiarism55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 March 2010Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 December 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard 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 Saratoga: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Arkansas-Louisiana Lime Co.PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSaratoga$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-A tree was blown down onto a home on the northern fringes of the Saratoga community.
April 2007HailSaratoga-no account filed
May 2003HailSaratoga-no account filed
May 2002HailSaratoga-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Okay1.6 miles15
Allbrook3.4 miles15
Tollette4.7 miles15
Schooley5.1 miles14
Schaal6.0 miles15
Buck Range7.8 miles14
Mineral Springs8.5 miles14
Shiloh9.7 miles11

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 SaratogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7423336The 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 58589. 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.