Foster Hill, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in El Dorado Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle.

Foster Hill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

95 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Foster Hill between 1999 and 2019, burning about 688 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2015	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Foster Hill: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Bromine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Great Lakes Bromine Plant & Mine	Bromine	Producer
Michigan Bromine Plant & Mine	Bromine	Producer
Unk	Bromine	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union 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
Pickering	1.2 miles	19
Wesson	2.0 miles	13
Griffin	2.6 miles	14
Newell	3.1 miles	19
Lamberton	3.2 miles	18
Parkers Chapel	3.3 miles	19
Catesville	3.6 miles	18
Cornie	3.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57766. 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.