Parham, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gum Pond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72160. The Survey maps it on the Stuttgart North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Parham within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

1937 USGS Stuttgart quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Stuttgart quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Stuttgart North quadrangle1:24000
1971 USGS Stuttgart quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Parham (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Parham (historical): 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Arkansas 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
Ona (historical)	2.5 miles	15
North Stuttgart	2.6 miles	15
Super (historical)	3.7 miles	15
South Stuttgart	3.8 miles	14
Stuttgart	3.8 miles	15
Ricusky	4.7 miles	14
Yoder	6.0 miles	13
Lookout	6.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62275. 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.