Cache Lake, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cache-Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72435. The Survey maps it on the Knobel quadrangle.

Cache Lake within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1967 USGS Knobel quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cache Lake between 1997 and 2018, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
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
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Sellmeyer (historical)	2.9 miles	14
Knobel	4.0 miles	14
Tipperary	4.2 miles	15
Knob	4.6 miles	15
Walnut Grove	5.3 miles	14
Luehrmann (historical)	5.5 miles	14
Peach Orchard	7.0 miles	14
Lower Boydsville	7.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76484. 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.