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Gold Lake Estates, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cadron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72032. It stands on Gold Creek. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Gold Lake Estates within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

69 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Gold Lake Estates between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Arson/incendiarism21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gold Lake Estates: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gold Creek1.5 miles13
Preston1.7 miles13
Caney2.6 miles13
Round Mountain3.0 miles13
Brumley3.3 miles13
Saltillo3.4 miles12
Chadwick (historical)3.6 miles17
Mayflower5.0 miles19

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 Q122563939The 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 62804. 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.