Doubleday, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72937. It stands on Elder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hackett quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Doubleday within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1887 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Hackett quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

102 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Doubleday (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,151 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2011	Smoking	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Doubleday (historical): 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ibison Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Building Stone Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hamilton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rock Island Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian 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
Hackett	1.5 miles	23
Jenson	3.1 miles	23
Excelsior	4.0 miles	22
Bonanza	4.6 miles	23
Montreal	4.8 miles	24
Old Jenny Lind	5.2 miles	22
Slaytonville	5.6 miles	23
Big Rock	5.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 67204. 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.