Bessie, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dowell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. The Survey maps it on the Podo Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bessie within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Podo Creek quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bessie (historical) between 1999 and 2019, burning about 526 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Smoking	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 June 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 December 2016	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Calvin	4.7 miles	10
Minturn	4.8 miles	10
Lindsey	5.5 miles	10
Alicia	6.2 miles	10
Ponders	6.8 miles	14
Sedgwick	6.9 miles	11
Hopewell	7.5 miles	10
Clover Bend	7.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61600. 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.