Rome City, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72747. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colcord NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rome City within Benton County

On record in Rome City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Sellers Farmlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Colcord NE quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

62 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Rome City (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,250 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
3 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30433
8 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30361
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30558
6 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30422

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 Rome City (historical): 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Maysville	0.6 miles	18
Cave (historical)	1.3 miles	18
Jaybird (historical)	2.0 miles	18
Pactolus (historical)	3.9 miles	19
Eldorado Springs (historical)	3.9 miles	19
Beaty	5.6 miles	18
Miller Springs (historical)	5.9 miles	18
Falling Springs	6.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75432. 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.