Ridgecrest, Arkansas

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.

• 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Mountain Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Conway quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Mountain Springs quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Ridgecrest between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,847 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 30 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• De Boer
• Evans Estates
• Kemp Addition
• Lindulake Addition
• Mountain Springs
• Spring Valley

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ridgecrest: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lonoke County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61216. 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.