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Clear Lake Junction, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Homan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71854. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Homan quadrangle.

Clear Lake Junction within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

50 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 688 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4

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
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Clear Lake Junction: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hutchinson PitClayProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
Meyers QySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller 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
Paup1.6 miles17
Homan2.5 miles17
Mandeville3.4 miles15
Dooley5.0 miles15
Clipper5.1 miles17
Rondo6.0 miles15
Index6.5 miles13
Lakewood Estates6.9 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122542644The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56961. 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.