Dolton, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71644. It stands on Jacks Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dolton within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1935 USGS Varner quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grady quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Varner quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dolton (historical) between 2004 and 2019, burning about 216 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2008	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2010	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 March 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 February 2011	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 December 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dolton (historical): 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clous-Dobson	Manganese	Prospect
	Haddock Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	1917

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Tamo	0.9 miles	15
Moscow	4.0 miles	15
Linwood	4.4 miles	15
Swan Lake	6.1 miles	16
Linn (historical)	6.2 miles	16
Sweden	6.3 miles	16
Clements (historical)	6.4 miles	16
English	7.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63917. 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.