Barcelona, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72955. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown quadrangle.

Barcelona within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Winslow #3 quadrangle1:62500
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
1969 USGS Uniontown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Barcelona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,088 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 124 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
Arson/incendiarism	124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SHILOH RD.
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SHILOH
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30551
20 September 2004	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30523
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30524
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	CNA RES #6
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Uniontown	2.6 miles	16
Natural Dam	3.8 miles	16
Davidson	5.6 miles	16
Cedarville	5.9 miles	17
Dripping Springs	6.8 miles	16
Lee Creek	7.0 miles	16
Hobbtown	8.7 miles	17
Figure Five	9.0 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q18326214

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 70506. 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.