Bogota, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71654. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bogota within Desha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Mc Gehee NE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bogota (historical) between 2002 and 2007, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha 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
McArthur	0.7 miles	13
McGehee	4.7 miles	13
Reed	5.5 miles	13
Trippe Junction	6.0 miles	13
Rohwer	6.5 miles	13
Lucca Landing	7.2 miles	15
Masonville	7.4 miles	13
Duce	7.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63845. 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.