Riggs, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Texas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72421. It lies near Jimmy Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Cash quadrangle.

Riggs within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Cash quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Riggs between 1999 and 2016, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 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
Fisher	1.5 miles	11
Cash	1.9 miles	11
Risher	1.9 miles	12
Denton Island	4.1 miles	10
Credit (historical)	4.3 miles	10
Chilson	4.7 miles	10
Dryden	5.0 miles	11
Winesburg	5.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58492. 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.