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Forest Grove, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Emerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71740. It stands on North Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emerson quadrangle.

Forest Grove within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

49 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Forest Grove between 1998 and 2019, burning about 620 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Naturalunder an acreLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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
Mohawk2.1 miles13
Emerson4.1 miles13
Ware5.0 miles13
Owens5.9 miles13
Brister6.9 miles13
Horsehead7.0 miles14
Noxobe7.8 miles12
Atlanta7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57761. 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.