Etta, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Midway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72104. The Survey maps it on the Social Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Etta within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1948 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Social Hill quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

170 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Etta (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 749 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Smoking	9
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	HOT22631151
24 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Etta (historical): 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cove Creek	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Malvern Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Cook Brothers Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ouachita Gravel Washer	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hot Spring 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
Elmore (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Central	1.5 miles	12
Saginaw	3.1 miles	11
Social Hill	3.4 miles	11
Oak Grove	4.3 miles	11
Donaldson	4.3 miles	9
Twin Oak (historical)	4.5 miles	12
Walco (historical)	4.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66088. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.