Dunnington, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oil Trough Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72564. It lies near Pleasant Island. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle.

Dunnington within Independence County

On record in Dunnington

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Hulsey Bend Schoollisted 1999 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 Newport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
1966 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dunnington between 1999 and 2018, burning about 629 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence 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
Oil Trough	1.7 miles	14
Elmo	2.0 miles	12
Akron (historical)	3.0 miles	14
Maple Springs	4.4 miles	17
Underwood (historical)	4.5 miles	14
Departe (historical)	4.5 miles	15
Thida	4.6 miles	12
Paroquet	4.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57687. 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.