BlockEdwards Junction, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72628. It lies near Lost Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Swain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Swain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Edwards Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GIBSON |
| 6 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | COLE CREEK |
| 28 August 1993 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | not named |
| 1 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | NAIL |
| 18 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | MOSSVILLE |
| 16 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | not named |
| 12 April 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | LITTLE ROUND MT. |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122568627 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71536. 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.