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McGlendon Mill, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle.

McGlendon Mill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of McGlendon Mill between 1998 and 2019, burning about 611 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined84 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeJONES FIRE
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFELSENTHAL
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
New London2.4 miles16
Sawmill3.1 miles16
New Union3.3 miles19
Careyville Landing5.0 miles17
Strong6.2 miles16
Pigeon Hill6.6 miles17
Lapile6.9 miles16
Sandy Bend7.2 miles16

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 Q122597642The 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 58149. 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.