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Falling Springs, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72722. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee City quadrangle.

Falling Springs within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Falling Springs between 2002 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Debris and open burning20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30433
8 August 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30575
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30570
6 July 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Falling Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cherokee City Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Benton 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ionia0.2 miles19
Bozarth (historical)2.4 miles19
Pactolus (historical)2.5 miles19
Eldorado Springs (historical)2.6 miles19
Decatur3.1 miles16
Trammell (historical)3.7 miles16
Cherokee City4.0 miles19
Dorsey (historical)4.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75497. 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.