Nevark, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71858. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Nevark within Nevada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1901 USGS Gurdon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
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
1973 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Chidester quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

81 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Nevark between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2,743 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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 2006	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nevark: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada 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
Young	1.5 miles	16
Mendenhall	2.2 miles	16
Caney (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Ames	2.9 miles	16
Woodlawn (historical)	3.6 miles	16
Waterloo	4.3 miles	16
Glenville	4.7 miles	13
Oak Grove	4.9 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122547535

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 58252. 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.