Crossroad, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71635. The Survey maps it on the Crossett North quadrangle.

Crossroad within Ashley County

On record in Crossroad

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Crossroads Fire Towerlisted 2006 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Crossett North quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

93 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Crossroad between 2001 and 2020, burning about 683 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Overflow National Wildlife Refuge	G.P.S. GIN CO.INC II
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Crossroad: 30 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them 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
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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ashley 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
Pugh	2.1 miles	10
Whitlow Junction	3.0 miles	10
Whitlow	3.3 miles	10
Brushy (historical)	4.1 miles	10
Bovine	4.2 miles	10
North Crossett	4.5 miles	10
Milo	4.7 miles	9
Old Milo	4.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76711. 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.