BlockBardill, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roc Roe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72170. The Survey maps it on the Ulm quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Ulm quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bardill (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 156 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2001 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 135 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | MON1587631 |
| 15 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 October 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulm | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Kay | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Beecher (historical) | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Nahay (historical) | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Fairmount | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Slovak | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| Slovaktown (historical) | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Vaby | 8.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59975. 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.