Scipio, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Veasey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71642. The Survey maps it on the Ladelle quadrangle.

Scipio within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ladelle quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Scipio between 2001 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4

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
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Scipio: 18 unknowns, 3 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Drew 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
Youngstown	1.9 miles	9
Prairie Grove	2.5 miles	9
Carpenter	3.1 miles	9
Valley Junction	3.4 miles	9
Goose Hollow	3.4 miles	9
Ladelle	4.7 miles	9
Lacey	4.9 miles	9
Lewis	6.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57180. 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.