Fort Douglas, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72839. It stands on Haw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Douglas quadrangle.

Fort Douglas within Johnson County

On record in Fort Douglas

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.

Big Piney Creek Bridgelisted 1990 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1889 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Fort Douglas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Fort Douglas between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,695 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism	24
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PINE RIDGE
23 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PINE RIDGE
1 August 2012	Natural	1,435 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HESS KNOB
8 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SINGLE TREE
28 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FT. DOUGLAS
8 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HESS KNOB
8 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HAW CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Dillen	3.3 miles	14
Rosetta	5.7 miles	13
Garber	6.8 miles	13
Poyner (historical)	8.5 miles	13
Gillian Settlement	9.2 miles	13
Salus	9.3 miles	13
Hickory Flat	9.8 miles	13
Zadock (historical)	10.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71663. 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.