Oak Forest, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in St. Francis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72342. The Survey maps it on the Helena quadrangle.

Oak Forest within Phillips County

On record in Oak Forest

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 5 records

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

White Houselisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
Battery B Site, Battle of Helenalisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
Altman Houselisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
Beech Street Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 1.0 miles away
Moore-Hornor Houselisted 1973 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1939 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Helena quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Oak Forest between 1992 and 2015, burning about 177 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	5
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BLAIR
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CANE
7 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TURKEY
18 February 2002	Debris and open burning	88 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BYRD
10 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CASTEWAY
29 December 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MIDAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oak Forest: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Helena Revetment	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miss River Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Phillips Cnty Hiwy Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Thompson	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Phillips 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
Midland Heights	0.6 miles	16
Holiday Hills	1.0 miles	16
Helena	1.1 miles	16
Helena-West Helena	1.2 miles	16
West Helena	1.9 miles	16
Helena Crossing	2.2 miles	16
Huma	3.2 miles	16
Southland	4.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65551. 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.