Colville, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72745. The Survey maps it on the Bentonville South quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Colville within Benton County

On record in Colville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Mt. Hebron M.E. Church South and Cemeterylisted 2003

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Bentonville South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Colville (historical) between 1998 and 2012, burning about 1,045 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	875 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BUTLER CREEK
25 July 2012	Smoking	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 March 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 March 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Colville (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Cave Springs	2.0 miles	17
Spring Creek	2.2 miles	18
Liberty (historical)	2.2 miles	18
Cannon (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Silent Grove	3.1 miles	18
Freeman (historical)	3.3 miles	17
Lowell	3.4 miles	17
Vogel (historical)	3.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75446. 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.