Rosedale, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72948. It lies near Tom Jack Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Natural Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rosedale within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Winslow #3 quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Natural Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Rosedale (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,775 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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
Arson/incendiarism	57
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	DRIFTWOOD
9 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HWY 59 NORTH
6 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BUG SCUFFLE FIRE
18 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHINKAPIN KNOB
5 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
Stop (historical)	1.0 miles	15
Lee Creek	5.2 miles	16
Davidson	5.6 miles	16
Anna (historical)	5.9 miles	16
Natural Dam	6.9 miles	16
Barcelona	9.4 miles	16
Armada (historical)	10.7 miles	16
Uniontown	11.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65745. 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.