Anderson, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Square Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waldron quadrangle.

Anderson within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1879 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #1 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1939 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

72 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Anderson between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,567 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Pleasant Hill	0.5 miles	31
Waldron	1.9 miles	31
Evening Shade	2.7 miles	31
Hon	3.7 miles	31
Winfield	3.9 miles	31
The Pines	4.1 miles	31
Green Ridge	5.2 miles	31
Lone Elm	5.4 miles	31

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 Anderson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122685	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 76169. 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.