Sarassa, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kimbrough Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71644. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle.

Sarassa within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Varner quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grady quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Varner quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sarassa between 2004 and 2015, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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
8 March 2010	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 March 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 October 2015	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Woodville	1.4 miles	15
Kimbrough (historical)	1.7 miles	16
Youngstown (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Grady	3.5 miles	15
Shannon Tank	3.7 miles	15
Silt (historical)	3.9 miles	15
Cummins	6.1 miles	15
Whitefield	6.3 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122565862

The 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 60287. 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.