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Stinking Bay, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crockett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72038. The Survey maps it on the Crocketts Bluff quadrangle.

Stinking Bay within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stinking Bay between 2000 and 2018, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeBUCK LAKE
25 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionARK2146469
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 March 2014Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionARK1647036
19 February 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 February 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 October 2010Naturalunder an acreDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeSTORAGE SHED QUARTERS 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stinking Bay in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindStinking Bay$25,000A tree fell on a truck, and a shed and chicken coop were destroyed.
March 2016Tornado (EF0)Stinking Bay$8,000As the tornado formed, a shed was destroyed causing some damage to a nearby home. Tin from the shed was carried off into a field well to the northeast, with some tin wrapped around a tree. The tornado dissipated as it approached the White River.

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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
Crocketts Bluff2.6 miles17
Saint Charles4.1 miles16
Mount Adams6.2 miles13
Van6.4 miles16
Immanuel6.9 miles13
LaGrue7.4 miles13
Sassafras (historical)7.5 miles13
Plainview8.5 miles13

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 Q18385589The 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 62306. 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.