Scotland, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Henderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71749. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle.

Scotland within Union County

On record in Scotland

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.

Scotland Cemeterylisted 2005 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1927 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

52 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Scotland between 1999 and 2018, burning about 358 acres in total. 2 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	21
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
26 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Cornie	1.6 miles	18
Junction City	2.8 miles	18
New Caledonia	4.3 miles	18
Wesson	4.4 miles	13
Blanchard Springs	4.7 miles	18
Foster Hill	5.0 miles	18
Caledonia	5.1 miles	18
Catesville	5.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59832. 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.