Magic Springs, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72650. The Survey maps it on the Witts Springs quadrangle.

Magic Springs within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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.

1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Snowball SE quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Witts Springs quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Magic Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,168 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2015	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	109 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	SEA27119892
4 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MAGIC
19 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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
Witts Springs	3.3 miles	20
Bohannon	4.0 miles	20
Slicker (historical)	4.5 miles	19
Leigo (historical)	4.7 miles	21
Bear Creek	4.9 miles	20
Marsena	5.7 miles	19
Welcome Home	5.7 miles	20
Dry Creek (historical)	6.1 miles	20

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.

Wikidata item Q122591479

The 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 72539. 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.