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Imo, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72650. It lies near Bradley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Witts Springs quadrangle.

Imo within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Imo between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,003 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning10
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2012Natural19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 June 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2016Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2011Arson/incendiarism36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2006Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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
Welcome Home1.5 miles20
Bohannon2.6 miles20
Kay3.1 miles16
Bear Creek3.8 miles20
Booster5.2 miles15
Watts5.6 miles16
Witts Springs6.2 miles20
Magic Springs6.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77267. 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.