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Hicksville, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hickory Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72069. The Survey maps it on the Marvell quadrangle.

Hicksville within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hicksville between 1998 and 2015, burning about 98 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarism71 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 October 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 October 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Hicks1.7 miles12
Postelle2.9 miles14
Marvell4.0 miles12
Turkey Scratch4.5 miles12
Maple Corner6.6 miles13
Tyner (historical)6.9 miles12
Cypert6.9 miles16
Poplar Grove7.1 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on HicksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326168The 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 65578. 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.