BlockTomato, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Canadian Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72358. It lies near Island Number 25. The Survey maps it on the Open Lake quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Hales Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Hales Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hales Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hales Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1972 USGS Open Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1977 USGS Hales Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tomato between 1999 and 2012, burning about 181 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Chicksaw National Wildlife Refuge | HARDY SHED |
| 19 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 December 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Chicksaw National Wildlife Refuge | MORRIS ROAD FIRE |
| 14 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 139 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barfield | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| O'Donnell Bend | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Armorel | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hickman | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Promised Land | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Clear Lake | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hickman Landing | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Rosa | 7.7 miles | 10 |
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 Tomato | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7818544 | The 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 78571. 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.