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Hallsville, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Watensaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72041. It lies near Pfennighausen Ridge. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle.

Hallsville within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hallsville between 2000 and 2015, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning3
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
16 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 February 2007Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 October 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Yuma (historical)1.3 miles17
Mesa2.4 miles17
De Valls Bluff2.9 miles17
Bucks Landing4.0 miles17
Thomas (historical)4.1 miles17
Biscoe4.8 miles17
Gospoda5.0 miles14
Hazen5.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57042. 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.