Wye, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 72016. The Survey maps it on the Martindale quadrangle.

Wye within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1890 USGS Benton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Benton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Martindale quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

89 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Wye between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,107 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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 burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	110 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	LAKE MAUMELLE
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wye: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wye in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 5 flash flood, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2013	Flash Flood	Wye	1 killed	Numerous streets and roads were flooded. The Little Rock Fire Department responded to several calls of cars stalled in high water. At one time, water was as much as 3 feet deep on some roads in the Ferndale area. The body of an 18 year-old male was found in Coleman Creek on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The state medical examiner ruled drowning as the cause of death, but it was not known how he ended up in the water. He was not a student at the university. At the Little Rock airport on the 30th, 2.06 inches of rain fell in the 30-minute period ending at 9:57 PM CDT, 2.73 inches fell in the 45-minute period ending at 10:13 PM CDT, and 3.09 inches fell in the one-hour period ending at 10:17 PM CDT. The 3.09 inches of rain in one hour broke the previous all-time record for the greatest amount of rain in one hour in Little Rock. The previous record was 3.00 inches on May 26, 1955.
May 2011	Flood	Wye	$27,000,000	Widespread areal flooding continued from April into May. On the morning of the 1st, Arkansas Highway 300 was closed just west of Arkansas Highway 10 due to a washed-out culvert. Also on the morning of the 1st, U.S. Highway 67/167 was closed by flooding near Little Rock Air Force Base. While this section of the highway reopened on the 2nd, a greater problem developed the same day when another section of the highway flooded between Jacksonville and Sherwood. Hours-long delays were created for motorists trying to travel to and from Little Rock. The section of Highway 67/167 that was closed typically carries about 70,000 vehicles each day. The highway reopened by the 4th. On the morning of the 2nd, six docks and more than two dozen boats broke loose from a marina on the Little Maumelle River. Much of the debris soon floated down into the Arkansas River and continued to the vicinity of Murray Lock and Dam. Pinnacle Mountain State Park was closed due to flooding. Homes were flooded in parts of Sherwood, including Indianhead Lakes and Gravel Ridge. Some homes also flooded in Jacksonville.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Wye	$3,000,000	At 1:06 AM CDT on the 1st, roads were flooded north of Jacksonville around Maddox Rd. and Old Tom Box Rd. At 2:40 AM CDT, a culvert washed out on Arkansas Highway 300 just off Arkansas Highway 10, closing the road. At 7:49 AM CDT, U.S. Highway 67/167 flooded near Jacksonville. By 8:45 AM CDT, Jacksonville Cutoff was impassable near Gravel Ridge due to high water, and an apartment complex nearby had cars submerged in the parking lot. By 10:30 AM CDT, a portion of James Rd. in the Blue Hill area washed out and was barricaded. A mobile home park in northern Pulaski County had to be evacuated. Firefighters used boats to reach residents whose houses were surrounded by water in parts of northern and western Pulaski County. Twenty-five to 30 houses flooded in the Cypress Dr. area of Jacksonville.
April 2011	Flood	Wye	$1,000,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred. On the night of the 29th, Arkansas Highway 10 was closed due to flooding about 4 miles west of Interstate 430.
November 2011	Flash Flood	Wye	$500,000	Numerous streets and roads in Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, and Pulaski County were closed during the morning and into the afternoon. Numerous cars became stranded in the high water. Interstate 30 was closed by flooding from approximately 10 AM to 1 PM near the Saline County line, when creeks overflowed onto the highway. The alternate route, Arkansas 5, was flooded by the same creeks. Traffic going west on the interstate was detoured along U.S. 167 to Sheridan and then U.S. 270 to Malvern. At the U.S. 167/270 intersection in Sheridan, traffic was backed up for about 7 miles. Pulaski Technical College's South Campus in southwest Little Rock was forced to close because flooded roads made the campus inaccessible.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Wye	$250,000	This tornado occurred west of Lake Maumelle, in the area around Arkansas Highway 10 and Bringle Creek Rd. The tornado blew down many trees, with one tree falling on a vehicle and another on a farm tractor. Fences were knocked down and outbuildings were damaged.
February 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Wye	$100,000	This tornado exited Perry County southeast of Williams Junction. In Pulaski County, a barn was flattened and another barn lost much of its roof. Trees were blown down. The tornado ended in western Pulaski County just off Arkansas Highway 10 close to where the eastern end of Higginbotham Rd. intersects the highway.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Wye	$25,000	Numerous roads flooded and had to be barricaded.
March 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Wye	$5,000	Mostly tree damage was found, with minor damage to a roof.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Wye	$5,000	A number of roads were flooded, as was part of the golf course at Maumelle Country Club. The three-day rainfall total for May 30th through June 1st at the Little Rock airport was 6.16 inches.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wye	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds broke off the tops of several oak trees in far western Pulaski County.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wye	-	A power line was blown down just west of Lake Maumelle.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crossroads (historical)	3.7 miles	16
Lundsford Corner	5.4 miles	16
Roland	8.1 miles	19
Monnie Springs	8.4 miles	19
Northpoint	8.6 miles	16
Natural Steps	10.3 miles	20
Pinnacle	11.0 miles	20
Mount Pilgrim	11.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57239. 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.