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Cannon Creek, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72727. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Durham quadrangle.

Cannon Creek within Madison County

On record in Cannon Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cannon Creek between 1998 and 2017, burning about 219 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

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
18 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 1998Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 March 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Thompson1.2 miles15
Crosses2.6 miles16
Delaney4.2 miles16
Patrick5.2 miles16
Asher5.4 miles15
Brannon6.0 miles16
Thorney6.3 miles15
Combs7.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57503. 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.