Dolph, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ozan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71862. The Survey maps it on the Sheppard quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dolph within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1951 USGS Sheppard quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Dolph (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 430 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Natural	25 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
Oakhaven	1.7 miles	15
Washington	2.9 miles	13
Crossroads	4.3 miles	15
De Ann	5.3 miles	15
Magnolia Addition	5.4 miles	15
Hempstead Heights	5.5 miles	15
Frisco Addition	5.6 miles	15
Hope	5.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61486. 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.