Pike Junction, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Caddo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71962. It stands on Little Antoine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Antoine quadrangle.

Pike Junction within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1943 USGS Antoine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Antoine quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Arkadelphia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Pike Junction between 1993 and 2015, burning about 444 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	102 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Natural	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	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 Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pike Junction: 5 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Unknown Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Arkansas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Delight Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Meeks Settlement	1.1 miles	10
Haretown	2.2 miles	10
Clear Spring	2.9 miles	10
Smyrna	4.3 miles	10
Okolona	4.7 miles	15
Love Creek	5.1 miles	10
Halfway	5.8 miles	10
Graysonia	6.5 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122569168

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58366. 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.