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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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 Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ethel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Indian Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| De Witt | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Charles | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Stinking Bay | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Sassafras (historical) | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hortons Landing | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Prairie Union | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Immanuel | 7.0 miles | 13 |
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 Van | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7913076 | 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 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.









