Brasfield, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Lower Surrounded Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72017. It stands on Maloy Bayou. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle.

Brasfield within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brasfield between 1992 and 2005, burning about 263 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
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
4 June 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	GEORGE
29 June 1992	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	GEORGE 1
16 June 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 November 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	MC FARLAND
12 November 2001	Debris and open burning	221 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Biscoe	1.5 miles	17
Beulah	3.2 miles	17
Bucks Landing	5.2 miles	17
De Valls Bluff	5.3 miles	17
Plunketts	5.5 miles	14
Hallsville	6.2 miles	17
Peppers Landing	6.2 miles	15
Yuma (historical)	6.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76412. 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.