McGuire, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72727. The Survey maps it on the Elkins quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McGuire within Washington County

On record in McGuire

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Maguire-Williams Houselisted 1995 · 0.1 miles away
Stokenbury Cemeterylisted 2010 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elkins quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Elkins quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of McGuire (historical) between 2000 and 2015, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	13
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 April 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Elkins	1.7 miles	18
Tuttle	2.0 miles	14
Harris	2.1 miles	18
Sydenham (historical)	2.2 miles	18
Strain	3.2 miles	18
Mount Olive	3.5 miles	14
Wyman	4.7 miles	18
Sulphur City	4.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 81940. 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.