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Hubbard, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72753. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prairie Grove quadrangle. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Hubbard within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hubbard between 1998 and 2017, burning about 280 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Hogeye3.0 miles16
Onda3.1 miles16
Canehill4.1 miles15
Clyde4.7 miles15
Prairie Grove4.9 miles16
Strickler5.0 miles16
Skylight5.9 miles15
Lincoln6.3 miles15

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 HubbardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680933The 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 77247. 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.