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Sulphur City, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72701. It stands on Trace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur City quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Sulphur City within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

39 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur City between 2001 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Sulphur City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur City in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
February 2001Thunderstorm WindSulphur City$100Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hicks1.8 miles15
Black Oak2.0 miles15
Carter (historical)2.6 miles15
Elkins3.4 miles18
Strain3.4 miles18
Durham3.9 miles15
Harris4.6 miles18
McGuire (historical)4.8 miles18

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 Sulphur CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636512The 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 78490. 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.