Pekin, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nettleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72437. The Survey maps it on the Needham quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pekin within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1939 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1983 USGS Needham quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pekin (historical) between 1998 and 2000, burning about 4 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

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
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead 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
Bowman	0.9 miles	10
Needham	1.4 miles	10
Southland	2.3 miles	10
Webbs Mill (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Gum Point	3.1 miles	10
Lake City	3.9 miles	10
Phillips	4.0 miles	10
Burnt Hill	4.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 64576. 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.