Lancaster, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 10. It lies in ZIP code area 72946. The Survey maps it on the Mountainburg SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lancaster 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 #4 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 Mountainburg SW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

141 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Lancaster (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 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

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
Deans Market	2.6 miles	17
Belmont (historical)	2.7 miles	17
Dean Springs	2.9 miles	17
Cain	3.3 miles	17
Rudy	3.7 miles	17
Hobbtown	4.0 miles	17
Ball	4.1 miles	17
Graphic	4.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 81945. 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.