Polo, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Central Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72616. It lies near Brushy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Grandview quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Polo within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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.

1900 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Grandview quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Polo (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 492 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	10
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 1996	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	44 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2004	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Polo (historical): 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. 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
Carbonate Water Mine	Zinc	Past Producer
Newman Pyrite Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unknown - Lead-Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
High	0.9 miles	12
Indian Creek (historical)	3.8 miles	12
Maple	4.2 miles	13
Urbanette	4.2 miles	12
Grandview	4.9 miles	12
Freeman (historical)	5.0 miles	12
Pleasant Ridge	5.0 miles	12
Oakgrove	6.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69236. 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.