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Van, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72042. The Survey maps it on the Ethel quadrangle. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Van within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2023HailVan-An mPING report, estimated to be quarter sized, fell near DeWitt.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVan-Power poles were blown down just to the southwest of Stinking Bay.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindVan-A tree fell on a mobile home.

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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
Ethel4.7 miles16
De Witt6.0 miles13
Saint Charles6.0 miles16
Stinking Bay6.4 miles17
Sassafras (historical)6.5 miles13
Hortons Landing6.8 miles17
Prairie Union7.0 miles12
Immanuel7.0 miles13

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 VanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7913076The 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 57219. 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.

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.