Bluetip, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It sits by Taylor Point. The Survey maps it on the Marcella quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bluetip within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1890 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Marcella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bluetip (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,840 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bluetip (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stone 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
Bothersome (historical)	1.2 miles	15
Ben	2.8 miles	15
Chalybeate Springs	2.8 miles	15
Marcella	2.9 miles	15
Melrose	3.7 miles	17
Pleasant Grove	4.3 miles	15
Kahoka (historical)	5.0 miles	15
Saint James	5.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65824. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.