Poplar Ridge, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72414. The Survey maps it on the Lake City quadrangle.

Poplar Ridge 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.

1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Poplar Ridge in 1999, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
1 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 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
Cane Island (historical)	1.7 miles	10
Lake City	1.8 miles	10
Black Oak	2.0 miles	10
Southland	3.2 miles	10
Mangrum	3.8 miles	10
Claunch	4.2 miles	10
Lester	4.2 miles	10
Upper Poplar Ridge	4.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78077. 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.