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Arab, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63787. It sits by Snake Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Sturdivant quadrangle.

Arab within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Arab between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 May 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 2020Debris and open burning2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation210521-11115-03072020-1140
25 March 1995Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 November 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Arab: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bollinger LandIronPast Producer
Lemon LandIronPast Producer
UnknownIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arab in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
April 2006HailArab$350,000Baseball size hail was reported in Zalma. Golf ball hail was reported elsewhere in southwest Bollinger County. Dozens of residents in southern portions of the county reported damage. A resident near Zalma reported extensive hail damage to his home, mainly to the west end of the house and garage. Holes were punched in the vinyl siding, and a skylight was busted. Several other houses in the vicinity were damaged. At least one vehicle was extensively damaged by hail.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindArab$150,000Thunderstorm winds estimated near 95 MPH overturned a vehicle. A house along Highway 51 was heavily damaged and pushed off its foundation. In the same area, a small shed and a large truck shed were destroyed. Along Highway C, a church lost part of its roof, and a small front porch was torn off and deposited behind the building.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindArab$75,000A house was destroyed by thunderstorm winds in excess of 100 MPH. Only a few interior walls were left standing.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindArab$5,000The Missouri Highway Patrol reported large hail and numerous large trees down across southern sections of the county.
May 2025HailArab-Hail estimated at up to baseball size was reported in Arab. No damages were noted in this report.
May 2024Flash FloodArab-Water was reported over MO-51 north of Arab. Radar estimated rainfall of 2.5-3.5 inches through the morning in the area with the heaviest rainfall between 0800-0900CST.
March 2023Flash FloodArab-Widespread flooding of low water crossings was reported across the county. Most low water crossings had at least a foot of water flowing over them.
March 2020Flash FloodArab-P Highway was impassable due to flooding in the Arab area.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindArab-Trees were down on Highway 51 North.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindArab-Trees were blown down, blocking State Highway 51 near the community of Arab.
May 2002HailArab-Penny-size hail covered the ground.
March 2018HailArab-no account filed
February 2007HailArab-no account filed
July 1997HailArab-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Greenbrier3.0 miles19
Zalma3.5 miles20
Sturdivant4.5 miles19
Castor5.5 miles17
Sank6.3 miles20
Gipsy6.6 miles20
Schlatitz7.1 miles18
Hahn7.7 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.

Wikipedia article on ArabAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471838The 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 740630. 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.