Bennetts, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72537. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gamaliel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bennetts within Baxter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

1890 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Gamaliel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Gamaliel quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bennetts (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 541 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 August 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 May 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2009	Debris and open burning	72 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 April 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bennetts (historical): 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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
Arnett Land	Iron	Past Producer
Bean Prospect	Zinc	Unknown
Bluebird Mine & Plant	Zinc	Prospect
Buttrom Land Number Two	Iron	Prospect
Golman Turner Pit	Zinc	Past Producer
Steel Bank	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baxter 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
Gamaliel	2.3 miles	18
Cumi	4.0 miles	18
Custer (historical)	4.1 miles	18
Norfork Lake Estates	5.4 miles	18
Henderson	6.1 miles	18
Mallard Point	7.0 miles	20
Lakeside Terrace	8.0 miles	20
Dogwood Park	8.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69341. 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.