Girard, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. The Survey maps it on the Golden City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Girard within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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.

1887 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1934 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Booneville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Golden City quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Girard (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,090 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
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
5 September 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	SKIDDER
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	GOLDEN CITY
2 September 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEE MTN.
12 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Colburn Spring (historical)	3.9 miles	31
Cardiff	5.5 miles	16
Lone Elm	6.3 miles	31
Green Ridge	7.1 miles	31
Olio	8.0 miles	16
Pleasant Valley	8.4 miles	31
Elm Park	9.4 miles	22
Boothe	9.6 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66289. 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.