Limestone, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Pleasant Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72628. It stands on Home Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swain quadrangle.

Limestone within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Swain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Limestone between 1993 and 2019, burning about 557 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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	25
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PINE RIDGE
13 August 2012	Natural	205 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PRESTON RIDGE
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	NAIL
4 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PINE RIDGE
18 April 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WALNUT
12 April 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	15 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LITTLE ROUND MT.
12 April 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
8 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PARKER RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Nail	2.8 miles	9
Walnut	4.0 miles	9
Deer	4.9 miles	14
Swain	5.4 miles	9
Edwards Junction	6.1 miles	9
Cowell	6.8 miles	14
Pleasant Hill	7.5 miles	14
Chancel	7.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72355. 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.