Moore, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jones Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72856. It lies near Hideout Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Moore quadrangle.

Moore within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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.

1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Snowball SW quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Moore quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Moore between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,903 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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	20
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 July 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	JULY
21 July 2012	Natural	6.7 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GARRISON
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KINGS BLUFF
7 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MULBERRY
21 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	9.6 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MOORE
2 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KETCHERSIDE
2 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LURTON
18 April 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Ben Hur	1.7 miles	22
Spence Jucntion	5.0 miles	15
Lurton	5.4 miles	15
Dickey Junction	5.8 miles	21
Holt (historical)	8.3 miles	15
Chancel	8.9 miles	14
Pleasant Hill	9.8 miles	14
Bass	10.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72719. 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.