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Wild Cherry, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72515. The Survey maps it on the Elizabeth quadrangle.

Wild Cherry within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

100 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Wild Cherry between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,071 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionIZA28697550
31 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFUL28031383
27 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wild Cherry: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wild Cherry in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2000: 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
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWild Cherry-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWild Cherry-no account filed
June 1996HailWild Cherry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Bexar3.6 miles11
Mitchell4.7 miles16
Elizabeth5.1 miles16
Byron6.6 miles11
Union7.2 miles11
Argosy (historical)8.3 miles16
Ruth8.4 miles18
Gepp8.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58886. 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.