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Tates Bluff, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Behestian Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71726. It sits by Tates Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Tates Bluff quadrangle. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Tates Bluff within Ouachita 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

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tates Bluff between 1998 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5

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 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Tates Bluff: 12 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
No NameStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tates Bluff in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2010: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2009FloodTates Bluff$3,000,000Heavy to record rainfall produced river flooding along the Ouachita River that had not been experienced since 1990. Numerous parks, county and state roads, and private residences were flooded.
June 2009FloodTates Bluff-Ouachita River flooding that peaked in May was ending in early June.
October 2010HailTates Bluff-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTates Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Lunet2.5 miles15
Wyloe (historical)4.2 miles15
Smead4.4 miles15
Kemp (historical)6.0 miles15
Amy6.5 miles15
Red Hill7.6 miles16
Velie8.1 miles15
Van Wagoner (historical)9.1 miles15

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 Tates BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7688012The 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 57203. 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.