Lester Junction, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71726. The Survey maps it on the Bragg City quadrangle.

Lester Junction within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1903 USGS Camden quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
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
1971 USGS Bragg City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

118 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Lester Junction between 1997 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 37 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	37
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Natural	65 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lester Junction: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Quartz. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
No Name	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Quartz, Iron, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown
Aggie Mccree Property	Iron	Past Producer
T.I.Brown Property	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ouachita 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
Lester	1.7 miles	15
Wise (historical)	2.2 miles	15
Bragg City	3.7 miles	15
Van Wagoner (historical)	4.7 miles	15
Camden	6.2 miles	17
Kent	6.6 miles	15
Good Hope	6.6 miles	16
Chidester	6.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57090. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.