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Satuma, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maumelle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72126. The Survey maps it on the Thornburg quadrangle.

Satuma within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Satuma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,298 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning18
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresOuachita National ForestLINK
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National ForestLAKE SYLVIA
8 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOuachita National ForestMIDDLE
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresOuachita National ForestNORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Satuma: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Lake Sylvia ProspectSilicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Satuma in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSatuma$15,000Many trees were blown down in the Lake Sylvia Recreation Area.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Camp Pershing (historical)3.0 miles15
Ragsdale3.2 miles14
Thornburg3.5 miles15
Williams Junction4.8 miles15
Harmony4.9 miles15
Cherry Hill6.1 miles15
Antioch6.6 miles15
Perryville7.7 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122558390The 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 73484. 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.