Sulphur Springs, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Marais Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71635. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Felsenthal Dam quadrangle. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Sulphur Springs within Ashley 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.

1934 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Felsenthal quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
1981 USGS Felsenthal Dam quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

95 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs between 2001 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 33 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	3.4 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	OLD NUMBER 75 FIRE
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley 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
Venice	2.4 miles	18
Meridian	3.8 miles	11
White	4.4 miles	11
Oakhurst Addition	4.5 miles	11
South Crossett	4.7 miles	11
Cremer	4.8 miles	11
West Crossett	5.2 miles	10
Crossett	5.4 miles	10

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 Sulphur Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636536	The 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 78493. 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.