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Stumptoe, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72080. The Survey maps it on the Jerusalem quadrangle. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Stumptoe within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Stumptoe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEVANS
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2020Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE OAK
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1999Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMYSTERY
9 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDEJA VU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Austin4.9 miles21
Liberty Springs (historical)6.0 miles16
Koones Gulf (historical)8.0 miles21
Old Liberty (historical)8.1 miles16
Gridley (historical)8.7 miles16
Latham (historical)9.9 miles16
Edge (historical)10.1 miles16
Gravel Hill10.3 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on StumptoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15051907The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73744. 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.