BlockCave Spring, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. The Survey maps it on the Marble quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Marble quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
45 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Cave Spring (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 920 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2012 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69200. 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.