BlockPeppers Landing, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Watensaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72041. It stands on Whisky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roe quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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 Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Roe quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Peppers Landing between 1993 and 2019, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 26 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 March 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.3 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | DUNCAN |
| 22 February 2000 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 December 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | FIRE # 36 |
| 4 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | MC FARLAND |
| 12 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 221 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peppers Lake | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| De Valls Bluff | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Biscoe | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Vaby | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Brasfield | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mesa | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Thomas (historical) | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hallsville | 7.7 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60036. 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.