Running Lake, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Running Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72455. The Survey maps it on the Pocahontas quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Running Lake within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Reyno quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Pocahontas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Running Lake (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 502 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	RAN28393895
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Running Lake (historical): 5 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
H M Bishop Farm	Iron	Prospect
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Poluca (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Keller (historical)	2.1 miles	12
Engelberg	2.7 miles	12
Debrow (historical)	3.0 miles	12
Brockett	3.6 miles	12
Cedar Grove	3.7 miles	12
Skaggs	4.3 miles	12
Stokes	4.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60450. 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.