Bethel Chapel, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71972. The Survey maps it on the Vandervoort quadrangle.

Bethel Chapel within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1913 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Cove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Vandervoort quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

72 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Chapel between 1997 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2002	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2015	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	COUNTY ROAD 32
8 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Vandervoort	2.1 miles	16
McCauley	2.7 miles	16
Hatton	3.3 miles	16
Old Cove	4.4 miles	16
Lone Valley	5.0 miles	16
Cove	5.2 miles	16
Clayton Spur (historical)	6.1 miles	16
Wickes	6.2 miles	16

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 Q122572678

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 63157. 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.