Denton, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Denton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peanut Mountain quadrangle.

Denton within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1879 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #1 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1939 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Peanut Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Denton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,660 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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	27
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
6 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BRUSHY HOLLOW
4 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	not named
12 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	77 acres	Ouachita National Forest	515
11 September 2002	Smoking	70 acres	Ouachita National Forest	DOGWOOD
30 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	DOGWOOD MOUNTAIN
17 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Winfield	3.4 miles	31
Blansett	3.6 miles	31
Beauchamp	4.8 miles	20
Sensation (historical)	5.0 miles	20
Shiloh	5.3 miles	31
Nella	5.5 miles	31
Pleasant Hill	5.9 miles	31
Ritz	6.2 miles	31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66283. 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.