Austin, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72141. It stands on Austin Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Lost Corner quadrangle.

Austin within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 21 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 Washington quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Marshall #3 quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1940 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Smyrna SE quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lost Corner quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Austin between 1996 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WHITE OAK
15 August 2012	Natural	12 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CANT GET THERE
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TRIGGER
25 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	89 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LIBERTY SPRINGS
8 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	162 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LIBERTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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
Koones Gulf (historical)	3.2 miles	21
Liberty Springs (historical)	4.4 miles	16
Stumptoe	4.9 miles	18
Latham (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Gridley (historical)	6.3 miles	16
Rex	6.7 miles	16
Dabney	7.0 miles	22
Old Liberty (historical)	7.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59210. 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.