BlockFrog Town, Arkansas
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72938. It stands on West Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
121 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Frog Town between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,377 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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 | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Creek | 0.9 miles | 24 | |
| Hartford | 1.8 miles | 23 | |
| Patterson | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Midland | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| West Hartford | 3.8 miles | 23 | |
| Arkola | 3.9 miles | 24 | |
| Burna | 4.2 miles | 24 | |
| Fox Hill | 5.1 miles | 24 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70588. 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.