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Old Lapile, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. The Survey maps it on the Huttig quadrangle.

Old Lapile within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Old Lapile between 1995 and 2017, burning about 487 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFELSENTHAL
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bolding1.4 miles18
Lapile2.0 miles16
Dollar Junction3.2 miles18
Huttig4.0 miles18
Victoria4.5 miles16
Union4.7 miles16
Felsenthal4.8 miles18
Strong5.4 miles16

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 Q122547409The 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 57141. 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.