New Town, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72638. It lies near Pinnacle. The Survey maps it on the Green Forest quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

New Town within Carroll County

On record in New Town

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Green Forest Water Towerlisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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.

1904 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:125000
1905 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Green Forest quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of New Town (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 1 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	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	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
9 September 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 April 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2010	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 2004	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of New Town (historical): 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Hittson Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
R & R Gravel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
R&R Gravel Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Osage Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
R & R Quarry No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Green Forest	0.8 miles	12
Norton (historical)	1.4 miles	12
Rule	3.4 miles	12
Brasswell Spring (historical)	3.9 miles	12
Hough	3.9 miles	12
Coin	4.7 miles	12
Cisco	4.8 miles	13
Conner	5.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69232. 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.