Patterson, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72938. The Survey maps it on the Cauthron quadrangle.

Patterson within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #2 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bates quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Cauthron quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Patterson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,934 acres in total. 6 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3

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
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	PAINT CAN
6 August 2011	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian 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
Hartford	2.4 miles	23
West Hartford	2.7 miles	23
Frog Town	3.3 miles	24
Apex	4.0 miles	21
Prairie Creek	4.2 miles	24
Arkola	7.0 miles	24
Midland	7.0 miles	24
Liberty	7.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73016. 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.