Slicker, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72650. It stands on Gourd Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snowball quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Slicker within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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 Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Slicker (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,159 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 85 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	85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2001	Natural	4.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	AUGUST
2 August 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	Buffalo National River	MCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
9 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	97 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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
Snowball	2.1 miles	19
Marsena	2.1 miles	19
Eula	3.7 miles	20
Blanco	3.8 miles	19
Dry Creek (historical)	3.8 miles	20
Hall (historical)	4.4 miles	20
Magic Springs	4.5 miles	20
Dongola	4.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69978. 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.