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Yocana, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. It stands on Loftis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Board Camp quadrangle.

Yocana within Polk 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Yocana between 1995 and 2018, burning about 123 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2

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
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2006Natural2.5 acresOuachita National ForestRAWLS
14 August 2000Natural16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2010Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2009Natural17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yocana in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindYocana-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and caused structural damage to several buildings.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Cherry Hill3.0 miles15
Pine Grove3.0 miles19
Ink3.7 miles19
Board Camp4.1 miles19
Posey Hollow4.6 miles19
Opal4.8 miles15
Highland5.5 miles15
Nunley6.5 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122548270The 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 63292. 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.