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Sturkie, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72578. It stands on Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salem Knob quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Sturkie within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

111 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Sturkie between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,125 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2004Debris and open burning22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Sturkie: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
BakerCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sturkie in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSturkie$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down. One of the falling trees caused minor damage to a house.
April 2025FloodSturkie-Widespread flooding occurred in Sturkie.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Moko1.9 miles11
Flint Springs4.9 miles11
Salem6.5 miles11
Shady Grove6.6 miles11
Viola7.1 miles11
Camp7.9 miles8
Wheeling9.5 miles11
Pickren Hall9.8 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.

Wikipedia article on SturkieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7629070The 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 58702. 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.