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Macedonia, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in L'Anguille Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72326. The Survey maps it on the Hawkins quadrangle.

Macedonia within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1998 and 2007, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 March 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 February 2007Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 October 2003Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis 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
Pinetree1.6 miles12
Wadell (historical)1.8 miles12
Hawkins3.9 miles12
Shiloh5.6 miles12
Rosenbaum5.8 miles12
Telico (historical)7.1 miles12
Slonikers Mill7.5 miles12
Four Gums7.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 83044. 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.