Hobbtown, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72952. It lies near Winset Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Rudy quadrangle.

Hobbtown within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Winslow #3 quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Rudy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Hobbtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 619 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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	46
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BRAWNER LOOP
10 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Cedarville	3.4 miles	17
Rudy	3.6 miles	17
Lancaster (historical)	4.0 miles	17
Ball	4.2 miles	17
Figure Five	4.8 miles	17
Deans Market	5.2 miles	17
Dripping Springs	5.8 miles	16
Meadows	5.9 miles	28

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 Q122595843

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 72028. 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.