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Base Line, Arkansas

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Big Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72209. It stands on Willow Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Little Rock quadrangle.

Base Line within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 surveys from 26 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

88 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Base Line between 1997 and 2019, burning about 483 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Base Line: 55 unknowns, 7 producers, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Niobium (Columbium). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fourche Bayou DepositNiobium (Columbium)Occurrence
Unknown S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Elkins PitClayProducer
HoffmanClayProducer
Little Rock Industrial Minerals PntClayProducer
Arch Street QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Granite Mountain MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Granite Mountain Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Granite Mountain Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sweet Home Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
American Manor0.5 miles26
Berger0.6 miles26
Brittain0.8 miles26
Ward0.9 miles26
Windamere1.1 miles26
McClellan Place1.1 miles26
Wakefield Village1.4 miles26
Cloverdale1.8 miles26

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 Base LineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4866372The 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 57335. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.