Lapile, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. It stands on Gorman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Strong quadrangle.

Lapile within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1933 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Strong quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Lapile between 1995 and 2019, burning about 625 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	82 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	FELSENTHAL
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Old Lapile	2.0 miles	18
Bolding	2.2 miles	18
Victoria	3.5 miles	16
Strong	3.6 miles	16
Union	3.7 miles	16
Sawmill	4.5 miles	16
Dollar Junction	4.6 miles	18
New Union	4.8 miles	19

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 Lapile	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986732	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 77448. 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.