Southern Home, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72842. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mountain Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Southern Home within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1879 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Magazine Mountain #4 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Blue Mountain Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

66 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Southern Home (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 769 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 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	21
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2001	Natural	12 acres	Ouachita National Forest	POTATO KNOB
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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
Quarry Heights	1.4 miles	20
Waveland	3.8 miles	20
Walnut Grove	4.7 miles	18
Marvinville	7.4 miles	18
Waltreak	8.3 miles	16
Havana	8.4 miles	18
Chalybeate Springs	9.4 miles	16
Riley Creek (historical)	10.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 67954. 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.