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Rocky Comfort, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72734. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle.

Rocky Comfort within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,223 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism875 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBUTLER CREEK
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Smoking8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Castleville (historical)1.3 miles17
Wager (historical)1.5 miles17
Healing Springs1.9 miles17
Hoover (historical)1.9 miles17
Highfill3.0 miles17
Cannon (historical)3.6 miles17
Osage Mills3.6 miles17
Cave Springs4.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75993. 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.