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Vick, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 71647. The Survey maps it on the Vick quadrangle.

Vick within Bradley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

48 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Vick between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,929 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,509 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSINGLETON CREEK
16 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined53 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Vick: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vick in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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 2008Tornado (EF0)Vick$2,000This tornado was spawned by Tropical Storm Ike. A few trees were blown down. The intermittent nature of the tornado's path indicated that the tornado was ill-formed and dipped up and down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindVick-Trees were blown down.
March 2008HailVick-Penny sized hail fell in Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge.
April 2003Tornado (F1)Vick-A weak tornado moved out of Union County (Shreveport County Warning Area) into Bradley County about 10 miles southwest of Vick. The tornado traveled to the northeast across the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge before moving into Ashley County (Jackson County Warning Area) near Lake Georgia Pacific. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado were numerous trees snapped off or blown down.
March 2000HailVick-no account filed
March 2000HailVick-no account filed
April 2000HailVick-no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodVick-no account filed
April 1996HailVick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Sturgis (historical)1.9 miles18
Broad3.0 miles19
Wilcox (historical)4.0 miles19
Ingalls4.5 miles18
Pine Island Landing5.6 miles19
Johnsville5.7 miles19
Moores Mill5.7 miles19
Ferrell (historical)5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57221. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.