Okay, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72080. The Survey maps it on the Lost Corner quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Okay within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 21 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.

1879 USGS Washington quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Marshall #3 quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1940 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Smyrna SE quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lost Corner quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Okay (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 255 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
26 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WHITE OAK
5 July 2013	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	EASTFORK
26 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TRIGGER
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TOWER
4 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ARMSTEAD
8 March 2017	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	EASTFORK II
6 March 2016	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope 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
Lost Corner	1.2 miles	21
Northwood (historical)	3.4 miles	21
Gabriel (historical)	5.2 miles	21
Nogo	6.2 miles	22
Retta	6.2 miles	21
Solo	6.7 miles	21
Walnut Grove	7.6 miles	16
Smyrna	7.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62014. 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.