Mount Gaylor, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 13. It lies in ZIP code area 72959. It lies near Gaylor Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Brentwood quadrangle.

Mount Gaylor within Crawford County

On record in Mount Gaylor

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.

Our Lady of the Ozarks Shrinelisted 2019 · 0.6 miles away
Muxen Buildinglisted 2019 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Brentwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Mount Gaylor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 615 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
27 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	CRA19125465
5 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
27 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
25 April 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PROVENCE
23 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WAS17089184

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Winfrey	1.5 miles	16
Artist Point	2.6 miles	16
Maddux Spring	3.2 miles	16
Schaberg	3.4 miles	16
Armada (historical)	4.9 miles	16
Locke	5.9 miles	16
Chester	5.9 miles	16
Bidville	7.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72749. 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.