Mineral Springs, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. It lies near Brushy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle.

Mineral Springs within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1906 USGS Batson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 738 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 52 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
Arson/incendiarism	52
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KIDD
30 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 May 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
3 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MORGAN KNOB #2
3 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CLEAR CREEK
3 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Mineral Springs: 1 past producer. 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Pittston Junction	0.4 miles	10
Mountain Top	1.3 miles	10
Beach Grove	2.6 miles	10
Peanut	2.7 miles	10
Redding	3.5 miles	15
Barnes	4.8 miles	15
Paradise	5.5 miles	15
Cass	5.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72692. 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.