Delfore, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72438. It stands on Kinnemore Slough. The Survey maps it on the Leachville quadrangle.

Delfore within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Delfore in 2014, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	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
27 January 2014	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR PEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead 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
Monette	3.3 miles	10
Macey	3.4 miles	10
Childress	3.7 miles	10
Cottonwood Corner	6.2 miles	10
Upper Poplar Ridge	6.2 miles	10
Black Oak	6.8 miles	10
Hancock	8.2 miles	10
Dixie	8.2 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122594630

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76778. 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.