Kaplin, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 71653. The Survey maps it on the Macon Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kaplin within Chicot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Lake Village NE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Macon Lake quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kaplin (historical) in 2011, burning under an acre 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
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
11 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot 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
McMillan Corner	1.1 miles	14
Macon Lake	1.9 miles	14
Yellow Bayou	3.1 miles	14
Panther Forest	3.3 miles	14
Bowman	3.6 miles	14
Maxey (historical)	3.7 miles	14
Elmwood	4.6 miles	14
Lake Village	5.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61713. 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.