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Trident, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72761. It lies near Norwood Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Rhea quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Trident within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Trident between 1993 and 2017, burning about 1,357 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
10 September 2011Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTOWER RD. FIRE
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30425
17 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCherokee Nation TribeLIGHTNING CREEK
27 July 2011Smoking63 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Trident: 2 unknowns. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trident in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
December 2010Tornado (EF2)Trident2 hurt, $200,000This segment is the third of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado severely damaged a couple permanent homes, destroyed a mobile home, destroyed barns, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped power poles in this portion of Benton County. Two injuries occurred in the mobile home that was destroyed on Winwood Ranch Road. The maximum estimated wind speed based on this damage was 130 mph.||The tornado continued into Washington County, Arkansas.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTrident-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees across the intersection of Wind Wood Ranch Road and Highway 16.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Norwood1.6 miles17
Chambers Spring (historical)2.9 miles17
Lake Frances3.9 miles19
Martin6.0 miles17
Pedro6.2 miles17
Twin Springs6.7 miles19
Siloam Springs6.8 miles19
Hico7.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q7841364The 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 74389. 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.