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Steprock, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72081. It stands on Cedar Branch. The Survey maps it on the Steprock quadrangle.

Steprock within White County

On record in Steprock

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

5 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

81 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Steprock between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,718 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use96 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17514057
23 September 2014Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17782797

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Steprock: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steprock in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2014Tornado (EF0)Steprock$100,000According to the American Red Cross, the tornado caused major damage to one mobile home, and minor damage to four houses. Most of the damage was due to falling trees. This was the third of five tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSteprock$2,000Small trees and large tree limbs were snapped off.
August 2012Heavy RainSteprock-Rainfall measured 4.65 inches in 21 hours.
August 2009Flash FloodSteprock-Street flooding occurred on Dripping Springs Road just off of Arkansas Highway 157. A rain gage nearby measured 2.24 inches of rain in one hour.
April 2015HailSteprock-no account filed
July 2012HailSteprock-no account filed
June 2010HailSteprock-no account filed
April 2010HailSteprock-no account filed
June 2004HailSteprock-no account filed
April 2003HailSteprock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Sunnydale1.4 miles9
Bare Stone2.6 miles9
Little Red2.9 miles9
Bliss (historical)3.7 miles9
Dewey3.8 miles9
Providence4.1 miles11
Maddock (historical)4.4 miles9
Doyleville (historical)4.5 miles9

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 Q122594423The 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 78458. 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.