Arnett, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72701. It stands on Greasy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur City quadrangle. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Arnett within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Sulphur City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Arnett between 1999 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	1
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
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WAS14482574
22 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Wyola	1.2 miles	15
Carter (historical)	2.3 miles	15
Hicks	3.1 miles	15
Porters Store (historical)	3.1 miles	15
Hazel Valley	3.4 miles	16
Brentwood	4.3 miles	15
Sulphur City	4.9 miles	15
Durham	4.9 miles	15

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 Arnett	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4794724	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 57281. 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.