Murta, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Campbell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Ridge quadrangle.

Murta within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1932 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1968 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Murta between 1999 and 2008, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 January 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Dicus	2.5 miles	14
College City	2.6 miles	12
Aa Junction	3.4 miles	14
Whiskerville	4.3 miles	14
Walnut Ridge	4.5 miles	14
Hoxie	6.1 miles	14
Richwoods	6.6 miles	12
Ponders	7.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58233. 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.