Morelock, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72074. The Survey maps it on the Hunter East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Morelock within Woodruff 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.

1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1971 USGS Hunter East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Morelock (historical) between 2003 and 2016, burning about 258 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
1 September 2007	Smoking	210 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	THREE FORKS
8 March 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 306 FIRE
3 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 January 2003	Arson/incendiarism	8.3 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 306

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff 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
Hunter	0.6 miles	13
Casey	4.1 miles	13
Quinlan (historical)	4.3 miles	12
Hillemann	4.6 miles	12
Bulltown	5.9 miles	12
Four Forks	6.2 miles	13
McGregor	6.3 miles	13
Becton	6.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60668. 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.