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Trippe Junction, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Halley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71654. The Survey maps it on the Halley quadrangle.

Trippe Junction within Desha County

On record in Trippe Junction

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Trippe Junction between 2006 and 2007, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
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
7 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trippe Junction in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindTrippe Junction-Trees and power lines were down with some roads blocked in the area.

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Masonville3.8 miles13
Halley4.2 miles13
McGehee4.2 miles13
Bogota (historical)6.0 miles13
McArthur6.5 miles13
Arkansas City6.8 miles15
Reed9.3 miles13
Lucca Landing10.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78583. 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.

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.