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Calico Neck, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Emerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71740. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Emerson SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Calico Neck within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

52 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Calico Neck (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Owens3.5 miles13
Ware4.1 miles13
Atlanta4.8 miles13
Noxobe7.9 miles12
Talley8.0 miles12
Forest Grove8.5 miles13
Spotville9.1 miles12
Mohawk9.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60265. 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.