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Little Arkansaw, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Batavia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72601. The Survey maps it on the Batavia quadrangle. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.

Little Arkansaw within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Little Arkansaw between 1997 and 2017, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 April 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 April 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone 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 Little Arkansaw: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carrollton Lode ClaimZincOccurrenceSmithsonite, Sphalerite
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Boone 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Batavia2.5 miles12
Ridgeway2.6 miles12
Lick Branch2.8 miles12
Bear Creek Springs2.9 miles12
Francis2.9 miles12
Alpena3.0 miles12
Prosperity3.6 miles12
Capps4.5 miles13

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 Little ArkansawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6648937The 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 77508. 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.