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Standard Umpstead, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71762. The Survey maps it on the Smackover quadrangle.

Standard Umpstead within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

164 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Standard Umpstead between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,250 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standard Umpstead in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2007: 2 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindStandard Umpstead-Two large trees were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindStandard Umpstead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Joyce City1.4 miles16
Snow Hill1.5 miles16
Millers Bluff2.7 miles16
Cross Roads4.0 miles16
Louann6.3 miles16
Kirkland7.9 miles16
Frenchport8.7 miles16
Liberty8.8 miles16

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 Q122589536The 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 55149. 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.

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.