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Forest Grove, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Walker Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71861. It stands on Walker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bradley NE quadrangle.

Forest Grove within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

73 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Forest Grove between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,443 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning20
Natural4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCOL15878656
24 September 2000Arson/incendiarism33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette 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
Walker Creek1.3 miles17
State Line5.9 miles17
Burton Mill7.1 miles15
Canfield7.2 miles15
Grants7.8 miles15
Bradley7.9 miles17
Lerch8.3 miles12
Walnut Hill9.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62480. 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.