Sterling, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 71640. The Survey maps it on the Readland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sterling within Chicot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1939 USGS Readland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Readland quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS Readland quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sterling (historical) between 2004 and 2011, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 February 2004	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 February 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot 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
Readland	3.2 miles	13
Grand Lake	4.8 miles	13
Indian	5.9 miles	12
Hanna	6.4 miles	12
Eudora	7.1 miles	12
Wellford	7.4 miles	12
Scaife (historical)	8.5 miles	14
Harwood	9.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61793. 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.