Oak Grove, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Batson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1906 USGS Batson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Hunt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2018, burning about 388 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	19
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
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
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	EAGLE NEST
26 August 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LEE POINT
30 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SINCLAIR #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Linville (historical)	0.6 miles	10
Batson	2.4 miles	10
White Oak	2.8 miles	10
Yale	4.4 miles	10
Edna	5.3 miles	10
Hunt	6.2 miles	10
Dale (historical)	7.5 miles	10
Oark	8.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65163. 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.