Felker, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72761. The Survey maps it on the Gallatin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Felker within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Felker (historical) between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 1 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 2011	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	994 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	HONEY CREEK
15 August 2012	Natural	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Felker (historical): 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Siloam Springs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Flint (historical)	0.2 miles	17
Fairmount	1.2 miles	17
Lone Elm (historical)	1.6 miles	17
Dawn Hill	2.4 miles	19
Gallatin	2.6 miles	17
Gentry	2.9 miles	16
Martin	3.2 miles	17
Springtown	3.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75501. 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.