Camp Ground, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Campground Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. The Survey maps it on the Paragould West quadrangle.

Camp Ground within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Camp Ground between 1997 and 2015, burning about 270 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
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 February 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 February 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 November 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 November 2001	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 November 2001	Arson/incendiarism	200 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Camp Ground: 10 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Sheppard Linke	Clay	Unknown
Cooper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dwyer Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Paragould Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Oak Grove Heights	1.9 miles	15
Fairview	2.8 miles	15
Gainesville	3.5 miles	14
Noxburn	3.6 miles	15
Unity	3.8 miles	15
Crowley	4.1 miles	15
Center Hill	4.3 miles	15
Hillside (historical)	4.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75612. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.