Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

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 2 records

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

• Camp Chaffee Tank Destroyer Battalion Historic Districtlisted 2011 · 0.2 miles away
• Camp Chaffee Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)listed 2015 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1879 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:62500
• 1887 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Barling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Fort Chaffee between 1998 and 2017, burning about 294 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Barling
• Central City
• Massard
• Diamond Grove
• Arkola
• Bashe

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Chaffee: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aggregate, Light Weight. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57762. 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.