BlockLittle Rock, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buckman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56373. The Survey maps it on the Little Rock quadrangle. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Pierz quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
111 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Little Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,648 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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 | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Rock in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Little Rock | $250,000 | Several dozen trees were downed, two sheds and a barn were damaged, and minor damage occurred to a house. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | A trained spotter measured an 81 mph wind gust near Highway 25 and 63rd Street. This was associated with the rear flank downdraft accompanying the Buckman tornado. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | Swath of scattered trees down. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Little Rock | - | 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.
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 Little Rock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6651742 | The 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 646909. 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.