Laurel, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72837. It stands on Bob Bates Fork. The Survey maps it on the Simpson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Laurel within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

1889 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Treat quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Treat SE quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Simpson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Laurel (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 349 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CLUB RICK
4 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PAINT
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TPL LAND
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MILL CREEK
23 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TURKEY HILL
8 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	STAVE MILL
8 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MACKS PINES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope 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
Tag	1.1 miles	15
Boiling Springs (historical)	3.7 miles	16
Retta	4.1 miles	21
Broomfield	4.3 miles	20
Hector	4.7 miles	16
Scottsville	5.2 miles	20
Solo	5.5 miles	21
Walnut Grove	5.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62009. 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.