BlockDuce, Arkansas
13 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 71670. The Survey maps it on the Kelso quadrangle.
On record in Duce
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial CemeteryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992 · 0.8 miles away
Rohwer Relocation Center Sitelisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away
Kemp Cotton Gin Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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 Red Fork quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Kelso quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Duce between 2002 and 2011, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | DESHA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohwer | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Kelso | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Zellner (historical) | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Kurdo (historical) | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Lucca Landing | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Littles (historical) | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| McArthur | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Wargo Landing | 7.2 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63829. 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.