Gum Tree, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72824. It lies near Chickalah Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Chickalah Mountain West quadrangle.

Gum Tree within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1888 USGS Dardanelle #3 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chickalah Mountain West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Gum Tree between 1992 and 2019, burning about 379 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 33 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	33
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #1
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #2
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CEDAR CREEK
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LABOR LAKE
28 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	REDS FIRE
28 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HOBEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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
Hickory Grove	2.0 miles	18
Crossroads	2.2 miles	18
Stafford	2.4 miles	18
Millan (historical)	6.2 miles	17
Belleville	6.5 miles	17
Havana	6.6 miles	18
Sulphur Springs	6.7 miles	18
Marvinville	7.0 miles	18

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 Q18326169

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 71861. 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.