Settlement, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72153. It lies near Hump Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Settlement within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1892 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1976 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Settlement (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 585 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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
Shirley	0.8 miles	17
Poe (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Fairfield Bay	4.0 miles	16
Eglantine	4.5 miles	16
Banner (historical)	4.6 miles	15
Kinderhook (historical)	4.6 miles	16
Pee Dee	6.0 miles	15
Palisades	7.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68697. 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.