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Cross Roads, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71751. The Survey maps it on the Snow Hill quadrangle.

Cross Roads within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

133 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1997 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita 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
Standard Umpstead4.0 miles17
Snow Hill4.1 miles16
Louann4.4 miles16
Frenchport4.7 miles16
Millers Bluff4.8 miles16
Joyce City4.8 miles16
Kirkland5.0 miles16
Elliott6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57611. 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.