Omega, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Walnut Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71662. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Omega within Desha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Red Fork quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Omega between 1998 and 2009, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 March 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 January 1998	Recreation and ceremony	5.6 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	OAKWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha 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
Pickens	1.7 miles	14
Yukon	1.7 miles	14
Hopedale (historical)	2.1 miles	14
Dumas	4.6 miles	14
Mitchellville	5.9 miles	14
Oaklawn	6.7 miles	14
Reedville	7.8 miles	13
Reed	8.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77919. 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.