Lone Elm, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mulberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72947. It lies near Boyd Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cravens quadrangle.

Lone Elm within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1879 USGS Cravens quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Watalula quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Watalula quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Cravens 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,594 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lone Elm: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Toney	2.0 miles	14
White Rock	2.4 miles	14
Cravens	2.6 miles	14
Pleasant View	5.2 miles	25
Felkner Town	5.6 miles	14
Piney	5.6 miles	16
White Oak	5.6 miles	14
Jethro	5.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77540. 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.