BlockMcArthur, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71654. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. It stands 148 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Mc Gehee NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of McArthur between 2002 and 2007, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota (historical) | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| McGehee | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Reed | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Rohwer | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Trippe Junction | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lucca Landing | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Duce | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Masonville | 8.1 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on McArthur | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3303590 | 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 58138. 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.