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Rabbit Ridge, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Barnett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72013. It stands on Rabbit Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Bee Branch quadrangle.

Rabbit Ridge within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

132 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Rabbit Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,132 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 68 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/incendiarism68
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism75 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDOCS LANE
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarism70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Whipple1.7 miles12
Damascus3.5 miles13
Southside4.4 miles12
Formosa5.2 miles16
Bee Branch5.2 miles12
Gravesville6.1 miles12
East Mountain (historical)7.8 miles12
Morganton8.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68690. 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.