Spring Bank, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71834. It stands on Sulphur River. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Spring Bank within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1952 USGS Doddridge SE quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
1986 USGS Magnolia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Spring Bank (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 656 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning	28
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	3
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 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2011	Smoking	58 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2011	Natural	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	MIL15534247

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller 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
Doddridge	2.2 miles	16
Smithville	2.6 miles	15
Kiblah	3.1 miles	16
Black Diamond	3.9 miles	15
Fort Lynn	5.2 miles	15
Brightstar	6.8 miles	16
Era (historical)	7.6 miles	16
Capps City	7.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63125. 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.