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Ragsdale, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cherry Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72126. It stands on Big Huston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aplin quadrangle.

Ragsdale within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Ragsdale between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,327 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresOuachita National ForestLINK
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Recreation and ceremony10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2012Natural135 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Satuma3.2 miles15
Cherry Hill3.6 miles15
Thornburg4.7 miles15
Aplin5.0 miles14
West Aplin5.2 miles14
Camp Pershing (historical)6.1 miles15
Deberrie6.4 miles13
Perryville6.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73226. 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.