Nebo, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72736. It stands on South Prong Spavinaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gravette quadrangle.

Nebo within Benton County

On record in Nebo

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.

Kindley Houselisted 1988 · 0.4 miles away
Kansas City Southern Railway Caboose #383listed 2010 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Gravette quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Nebo between 1997 and 2020, burning about 838 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	17
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 August 2012	Natural	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Natural	44 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Nebo: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Independent Gravel Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Gravette	0.8 miles	16
Gallatin (historical)	2.7 miles	16
Dorsey (historical)	3.0 miles	16
Clementine (historical)	3.1 miles	16
Pond (historical)	3.8 miles	16
Sulphur Springs	4.7 miles	16
Beaty	5.1 miles	18
Round Top (historical)	5.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77796. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.