Blackville, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cache Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. It lies near Bowen Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Tupelo quadrangle.

Blackville within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Blackville between 1992 and 2016, burning about 337 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
1 July 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	BLACK
19 June 1998	Debris and open burning	76 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ALLEN
2 March 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY 145
12 March 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 February 2015	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	BEEDEVILLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Algoa	3.0 miles	10
Shoffner	3.6 miles	10
Eightmile (historical)	3.6 miles	10
Stringers Mill	3.7 miles	10
Auvergne	4.1 miles	11
Remmel	4.4 miles	11
Weldon	4.4 miles	10
Beedeville	4.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57389. 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.