Martinville, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71646. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle.

Martinville within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Martinville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
6 September 2009	Natural	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley 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 Martinville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Ashley Cnty Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ashley 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
Hamburg	1.2 miles	10
Wallace	2.5 miles	15
Promised Land	3.8 miles	13
Mist	5.6 miles	13
Old Milo	6.3 miles	9
Bovine	6.6 miles	10
Crossroad	7.2 miles	10
Phelan (historical)	7.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62340. 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.