Fidelity, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72936. The Survey maps it on the Burnville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fidelity within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1906 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Burnville quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Burnville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Burnville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Fidelity (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 591 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	410 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	GREENWOOD
19 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 June 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fidelity (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Peerless Coal Co	Flagstone	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian 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
Carnis	1.2 miles	21
Greenwood	2.6 miles	22
Burnville	3.3 miles	21
Auburn (historical)	4.7 miles	25
Big Rock	5.3 miles	22
Diamond Grove	5.5 miles	25
New Jenny Lind	5.7 miles	25
Jenny Lind	5.7 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 67212. 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.