Gentry Corner, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72120. It lies near Rock Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Cato quadrangle.

Gentry Corner within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1891 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Camp Pike quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Cato quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Cato quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Cato quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Gentry Corner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,906 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner 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
Brockington Corner	0.9 miles	17
Cato	2.6 miles	17
Chadwick (historical)	3.6 miles	17
Saltillo	5.2 miles	12
Gold Lake Estates	6.9 miles	13
Otto	7.2 miles	11
Mayflower	7.2 miles	19
Gold Creek	7.5 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122561033

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57805. 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.