Dave, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bois d'Arc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71838. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Bluff quadrangle.

Dave within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1950 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Dave between 1997 and 2020, burning about 686 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4

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
6 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	33 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead 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
McNab	2.9 miles	14
Thrasher (historical)	3.8 miles	14
Fulton	4.1 miles	17
Sprudel	6.3 miles	17
Powers	8.4 miles	15
Sheppard	8.5 miles	15
Wafers Crossing	9.8 miles	15
Columbus	9.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56983. 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.