Silt, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Choctaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71644. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Silt 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Silt (historical) between 2004 and 2015, burning about 49 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
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
9 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 March 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 February 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 February 2015	Debris and open burning	20 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
Grady	1.6 miles	15
Shannon Tank	2.8 miles	15
Varner	3.6 miles	15
Sarassa	3.9 miles	15
Woodville	3.9 miles	15
Four Groves (historical)	4.2 miles	15
Whitefield	4.4 miles	15
Kimbrough (historical)	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60286. 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.