BlockBefore

Toad Suck, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72016. The Survey maps it on the Gleason quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Toad Suck within Perry County

On record in Toad Suck

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Toad Suck between 1997 and 2019, burning about 410 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Smoking9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Toad Suck: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Toadsuck Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toad Suck in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
April 2004HailToad Suck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Nogal0.4 miles17
Stony Point2.4 miles17
New Dixie3.6 miles17
Dixie (historical)3.8 miles17
Bunker Hill5.8 miles17
Bigelow6.3 miles17
Fourche6.5 miles16
Graytown6.9 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 Toad SuckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7811368The 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 57209. 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.