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Medlock, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71764. It stands on Henderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Village quadrangle.

Medlock within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Medlock between 1997 and 2019, burning about 700 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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
Snipe2.1 miles12
Ebenezer3.8 miles12
Laughlin3.9 miles12
Lydesdale5.3 miles12
Damascus6.1 miles12
Village6.2 miles12
Milner (historical)6.4 miles13
Warnock Springs6.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58159. 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.