BlockMount Holly, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71758. The Survey maps it on the Mount Holly quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Mount Holly quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Mt Holly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louann quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
75 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Mount Holly between 1997 and 2019, burning about 474 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Natural | 16 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marysville | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lisbon | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Cairo | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Shuler | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Dumas City | 11.0 miles | 16 | |
| Trull | 12.4 miles | 14 | |
| Carnie (historical) | 12.7 miles | 12 | |
| Smackover | 12.9 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Mount Holly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12894634 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77717. 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.