Ellis Chapel, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72396. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamlin quadrangle.

Ellis Chapel within Cross County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Wynne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Wynne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ellis Chapel between 2003 and 2014, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 February 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	ST 1230513
24 October 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cross 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
Wick Mill	2.8 miles	12
L'Anguille	3.0 miles	12
Hamlin	3.3 miles	12
Smith Chapel	3.4 miles	12
McElroy	3.6 miles	12
Central	4.4 miles	12
Fitzgerald Crossing	5.2 miles	12
Wilkins	5.6 miles	12

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 Q122558013

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 57714. 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.