Arkmo, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neal Township. The Survey maps it on the Manila North quadrangle. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Arkmo within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1941 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Manila North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Arkmo in 2014, burning about 6 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 January 2014	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR PEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi 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
Boynton	1.1 miles	11
Garson	1.9 miles	11
Pawheen	2.4 miles	11
Happy Corners	2.6 miles	10
Leachville	4.2 miles	10
Clearwater	5.1 miles	10
Buckeye	5.3 miles	11
Springfield (historical)	5.8 miles	10

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 Arkmo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4792028	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 61892. 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.