Liberty, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72745. It lies near Callahan Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Springdale quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Liberty within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Liberty (historical) between 2001 and 2018, burning about 236 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	6
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BENTON 232
9 March 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 March 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 March 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 December 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Liberty (historical): 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Stone	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Lowell	1.4 miles	17
Silent Grove	1.8 miles	18
Vogel (historical)	1.8 miles	18
Colville (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Spring Creek	2.4 miles	18
Bethel Heights	2.7 miles	18
Freeman (historical)	3.0 miles	17
Cross Hollow	3.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75586. 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.