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Ursula, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72933. It stands on Doctors Fork. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Ursula within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Ursula between 1998 and 2017, burning about 409 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2005Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ursula in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2018Tornado (EF1)Ursula$15,000This is the first segment of a two segment tornado. In Sebastian County, this tornado uprooted trees and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 85 to 95 mph.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindUrsula-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto Highway 22 near Plantation Lane.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindUrsula-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
December 2015FloodUrsula-Portions of Highway 252 east of Lavaca were closed due to flooding.
December 2015FloodUrsula-Portions of Highway 252 east of Lavaca were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Beverly2.8 miles22
Bloomer3.2 miles25
Lavaca4.3 miles25
Auburn (historical)5.2 miles25
Diamond Grove5.7 miles25
Island6.6 miles22
Riverdale6.9 miles25
Carnis7.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58788. 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.