Benzal, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72166. The Survey maps it on the Yancopin quadrangle.

Benzal within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Big Island quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Yancopin quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Benzal between 1993 and 2006, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
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
13 August 2006	Smoking	5.0 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	POST CANAL
24 February 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	WILLIAMS 1
21 February 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 January 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	FIRE1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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
Medina	3.1 miles	12
Prairie Landing	5.8 miles	16
Osotouy (historical)	5.8 miles	13
Jacks Bay Landing	6.7 miles	16
Arkansas Post	9.8 miles	12
Arkansas (historical)	9.8 miles	12
Weber	10.2 miles	15
Tichnor	11.3 miles	12

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 Q122543224

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 57360. 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.