Horseshoe, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bryan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. It stands on Bear Lake Slough. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle.

Horseshoe within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1935 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
1966 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe between 1998 and 2017, burning about 188 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 1998	Debris and open burning	76 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 March 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 February 2015	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Auvergne	2.3 miles	11
Ingleside	2.9 miles	11
Shoffner	3.7 miles	10
Erwin	4.3 miles	11
Island Town	4.6 miles	13
Spriggs Mill	4.8 miles	11
Bengel	4.9 miles	11
Weldon	5.2 miles	10

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 Horseshoe	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326165	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 57946. 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.