Healing Springs, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72713. The Survey maps it on the Centerton quadrangle.

Healing Springs within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Centerton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Healing Springs between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,178 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	875 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BUTLER CREEK
12 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Smoking	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Healing Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Castleville (historical)	1.5 miles	17
Cannon (historical)	1.7 miles	17
Osage Mills	1.9 miles	17
Rocky Comfort	1.9 miles	17
Wager (historical)	2.3 miles	17
Cave Springs	2.5 miles	17
Hoover (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Highfill	4.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 49976. 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.