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Salesville, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72653. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Norfork quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Salesville within Baxter County

Population over time

2 figures

Salesville grew from 450 to 473 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010450
2020473+23 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

71 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Salesville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,725 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
19 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMATNEY
9 July 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Salesville: 4 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Lead, Mercury, Zinc, 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
MeerscheidtLead, Mercury, ZincProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Baxter 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
Spencer (historical)1.2 miles18
Briarcliff2.3 miles18
Norfork2.7 miles17
Norfork Village2.7 miles17
Arkana2.8 miles17
Sycamore Heights2.8 miles18
Hopewell3.3 miles19
Sycamore Spring3.8 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SalesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79473The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76870. 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.