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Sugar Grove, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Petit Jean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It stands on Smiths Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Grove quadrangle.

Sugar Grove within Logan County

On record in Sugar Grove

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOuachita National ForestFLAT ROCK
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism43 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Grove in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 2 hail. 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 2002HailSugar Grove-no account filed
June 1998HailSugar Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Mountain Grove1.9 miles22
Grayson4.1 miles22
Mixon4.2 miles22
Magazine4.8 miles22
Revilee5.6 miles22
Blue Mountain5.8 miles19
Golden City6.8 miles22
Cauthron7.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78479. 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.