Colburn Spring, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It lies near Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Waldron quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Colburn Spring within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1879 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #1 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1939 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Colburn Spring (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2004	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2004	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	SKIDDER
29 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEE MTN.
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2006	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Lone Elm	3.4 miles	31
Girard (historical)	3.9 miles	22
Green Ridge	4.6 miles	31
Elm Park	5.9 miles	22
Pleasant Valley	6.3 miles	31
Cardiff	6.4 miles	16
Boothe	6.6 miles	22
Evening Shade	7.1 miles	31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66280. 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.