Chapel Hill, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Nashville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle.

Chapel Hill within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1951 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill between 1993 and 2017, burning about 170 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Smoking	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Chapel Hill: 19 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bingen	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bobby Smith Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Howard 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
Temperanceville	2.0 miles	14
Pump Springs (historical)	2.1 miles	12
Corinth	3.5 miles	12
Nashville	3.6 miles	14
Mount Olive (historical)	3.8 miles	14
Amity (historical)	4.8 miles	14
Center Point	4.9 miles	12
Blue Bayou	5.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62555. 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.