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Aurelle, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. The Survey maps it on the Gardner quadrangle.

Aurelle within Union County

On record in Aurelle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Aurelle between 1997 and 2017, burning about 676 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
26 September 2010Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15447500
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Gardner4.2 miles16
Union4.2 miles16
Victoria4.4 miles16
Strong5.6 miles16
Sandy Bend5.9 miles16
Payne7.0 miles16
Hillsboro7.8 miles16
Lapile7.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57293. 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.