BlockWeber, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72166. The Survey maps it on the Weber quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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 Henrico quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Henrico quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Weber quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Henrico quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Weber between 2006 and 2017, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 December 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge | DRAINIE LAKE |
| 29 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weber in 1 storm report in 2011: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Hail | Weber | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacks Bay Landing | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Sheppard Point | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Landing | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| La Grue Springs | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Tichnor | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Deluce | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Prairie Union | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Ethel | 9.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58843. 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.