Bellair, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mine Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71855. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle.

Bellair within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1951 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Bellair between 1997 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2008	Natural	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bellair: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Roy Leslie Farm	Iron	Past Producer
No Name	Clay	Past Producer
Sample Site	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead 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
Clow	0.7 miles	14
Compton (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Doyle	3.8 miles	14
Ozan	4.6 miles	13
Yancy	4.9 miles	14
Belton (historical)	5.2 miles	14
Bingen	5.2 miles	14
North Bingen	6.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61419. 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.