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Rex, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wheeler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. The Survey maps it on the Rex quadrangle.

Rex within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rex between 1997 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural1

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
18 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 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
Rupert2.3 miles15
Alread2.5 miles15
Latham (historical)2.5 miles16
Koones Gulf (historical)3.6 miles21
Williams Gulf (historical)3.6 miles16
Dabney4.7 miles22
Racket Ridge (historical)5.0 miles16
Gladys (historical)5.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73281. 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.