Fogel, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Acorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Fork quadrangle.

Fogel within Polk County

On record in Fogel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

State Line Markerlisted 1976 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Mountain Fork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Potter quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Fogel between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,186 acres in total. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
10 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2015	Natural	55 acres	Ouachita National Forest	LITTLE MOUNTAIN
26 August 2011	Natural	4.3 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SOUTH FIRE
23 August 2006	Natural	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Howard	0.9 miles	22
Mountain Fork	4.7 miles	22
Rich Mountain	6.3 miles	22
Center Point	7.1 miles	22
Eagleton	8.4 miles	22
Rocky	9.1 miles	22
Shady Grove	10.8 miles	22
Potter	12.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71653. 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.