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Venice, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Marais Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71635. It lies near Russell Island. The Survey maps it on the Felsenthal Dam quadrangle.

Venice within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

89 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Venice between 2000 and 2019, burning about 705 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony3.4 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOLD NUMBER 75 FIRE
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venice in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash flood. 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
October 2009Flash FloodVenice$80,000Heavy rain caused several roads to flood across western Ashley County along with several other roads across Crossett. Crops across this area were impacted as well with damage due to flooded fields and very wet soils.

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
White2.3 miles11
Sulphur Springs2.4 miles18
Meridian2.6 miles11
South Crossett6.2 miles11
Oakhurst Addition6.4 miles11
Cremer6.7 miles11
Forest Park Addition7.1 miles11
Crossett7.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58800. 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.