Marsena, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72686. It lies near Granny Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Snowball quadrangle.

Marsena within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Marsena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,610 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 84 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	84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	Buffalo National River	MCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
9 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	97 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	109 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	SEA27119892
6 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 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
Slicker (historical)	2.1 miles	19
Snowball	2.3 miles	19
Dongola	2.7 miles	19
Blanco	3.5 miles	19
Bear Creek	3.7 miles	20
Buroak	4.0 miles	19
Zeb (historical)	4.3 miles	19
Lebanon (historical)	4.9 miles	17

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 Q122570935

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 72556. 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.