Draft, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cherokee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72529. It stands on Right Prong Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stuart quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Draft within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Stuart quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Cherokee Village quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

123 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Draft (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,608 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
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
28 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2001	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 1997	Natural	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp 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
Cherokee Village	2.2 miles	10
Highland	2.4 miles	10
Hidden Valley	2.9 miles	10
Stuart	3.2 miles	10
Hardy	4.1 miles	8
Canton (historical)	5.6 miles	8
Ash Flat	5.9 miles	9
Kings Mills (historical)	7.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66156. 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.