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Wright, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bolivar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72182. It lies near Hensley Island. The Survey maps it on the Wright quadrangle. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Wright within Jefferson County

On record in Wright

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wright between 2001 and 2015, burning about 116 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2010Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2006Natural30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 April 2010Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 April 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wright in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2008FloodWright$1,000,000Heavy rain caused minor flooding of the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff. This was the 4th highest crest since completion of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System which extends into Oklahoma. Homes in the Island Harbor Estates subdivision north of Pine Bluff saw water at the top of street signs and mailboxes, but only 2 homes along Holiday and Canal Roads partially flooded. Some winter wheat flooded in Jefferson County.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWright$1,000A large tree was blown down onto Arkansas 256.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWright-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees and power lines. Several homes had shingles blown off.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWright-Some trees were blown down.
January 2012Funnel CloudWright-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWright-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWright-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindWright-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindWright-no account filed
December 1996HailWright-no account filed
April 1995HailWright-no account filed
January 1993HailWright-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Plum Bayou (historical)2.3 miles12
Red Bluff (historical)5.5 miles12
Pastoria5.5 miles16
Kearney5.8 miles12
Tucker6.0 miles13
Ferda6.1 miles13
Redfield6.2 miles12
Jefferson6.4 miles12

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 WrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8038157The 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 56551. 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.