Sanders, Arkansas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in De Roche Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71929. It stands on Sanders Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Roche quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sanders within Hot Spring County

On record in Sanders

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.

Blakely Houselisted 1976 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS De Roche quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Arkadelphia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

128 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Sanders (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring 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 Sanders (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 Hot Spring 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
De Roche	1.0 miles	7
Antioch	3.4 miles	11
Caney	5.8 miles	7
Duffie (historical)	6.1 miles	8
Saginaw	6.2 miles	11
Old De Roche	6.4 miles	8
Social Hill	6.8 miles	11
Bismarck	7.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66137. 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.