BlockFloss, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Cove Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72753. It lies near Low Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Strickler quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Strickler quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Floss between 1992 and 2017, burning about 886 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BUG SCUFFLE FIRE |
| 18 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | WAS17788252 |
| 7 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q5461981 | 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 71642. 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.