Spring Creek, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72745. It stands on Puppy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springdale quadrangle.

Spring Creek within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek between 1999 and 2010, burning about 119 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 March 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 March 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 December 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 December 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 December 2005	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Creek: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Silent Grove	1.7 miles	18
Colville (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Liberty (historical)	2.4 miles	18
Vogel (historical)	2.8 miles	18
Cave Springs	3.3 miles	17
Bethel Heights	3.4 miles	18
Cannon (historical)	3.7 miles	17
Lowell	3.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76033. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.