Bothersome, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Logan Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Drasco quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bothersome 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
1973 USGS Drasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Bothersome (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,876 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	2
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
13 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	19 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bluetip (historical)	1.2 miles	15
Ben	2.0 miles	15
Chalybeate Springs	2.4 miles	15
Marcella	3.9 miles	15
Kahoka (historical)	4.5 miles	15
Melrose	4.7 miles	17
Pleasant Grove	4.9 miles	15
Saint James	6.3 miles	15

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 Q4948635

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 65825. 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.