Cauthron, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It stands on Gin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Magazine quadrangle.

Cauthron within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1887 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1934 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Magazine quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

82 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Cauthron between 1997 and 2020, burning about 528 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	32
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4

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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2012	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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
Booneville	3.4 miles	22
Brownsville	3.5 miles	22
Magazine	3.6 miles	22
Revilee	4.9 miles	22
Chismville	5.0 miles	22
Mixon	5.5 miles	22
Driggs	6.9 miles	22
Sugar Grove	7.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 64238. 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.