Booker, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wappanocca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72327. The Survey maps it on the Heafer quadrangle.

Booker within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Heafer quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Booker between 1993 and 2015, burning about 4 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
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	ARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE
28 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WALKWAY
15 March 1993	Smoking	3.1 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WAP 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden 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
Clarkedale	2.8 miles	14
Jericho	3.6 miles	14
Heafer	4.9 miles	10
James Mill	4.9 miles	14
Turrell	5.3 miles	10
Crawfordsville	6.0 miles	12
Grassy Lake Bottom	6.3 miles	11
Lansing	6.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56935. 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.