BlockGourd Neck, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cow Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. The Survey maps it on the Tupelo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gourd Neck between 1999 and 2012, burning about 264 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 June 2000 | Smoking | 8.9 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | STUCKEY |
| 7 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 February 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | FAKES CHAPEL RD. |
| 21 November 2002 | Smoking | 14 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | FAKES CHAPEL ROAD |
| 19 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 November 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | BRECKENRIDGE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McFadden | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Beedeville | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Tupelo | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Eightmile (historical) | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Weldon | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cow Lake (historical) | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Blackville | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Shoffner | 8.0 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59265. 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.