Blanchard Springs, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71749. It stands on Polly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle.

Blanchard Springs within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

68 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Blanchard Springs between 1998 and 2020, burning about 404 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
26 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
18 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
New Caledonia	2.0 miles	18
Caledonia	2.1 miles	18
Junction City	3.1 miles	18
Cornie	4.2 miles	18
Scotland	4.7 miles	18
Catesville	5.4 miles	18
Lamberton	6.7 miles	18
Foster Hill	7.4 miles	18

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 Q122552580

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 59602. 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.