Poe, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72153. It stands on Ship Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poe within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1892 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1976 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Poe (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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	35
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	1
Natural	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
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	97 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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
Kinderhook (historical)	1.9 miles	16
Shirley	2.7 miles	17
Settlement (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Fairfield Bay	4.7 miles	16
Eglantine	6.1 miles	16
Banner (historical)	7.3 miles	15
Chalk (historical)	8.4 miles	15
Pee Dee	8.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68689. 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.