Suttle, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Starr Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72744. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Suttle within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Suttle between 1998 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 1 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Lincoln	2.3 miles	15
Rhea	2.6 miles	17
Viney Grove	4.2 miles	18
Prairie Grove	4.3 miles	16
Canehill	4.7 miles	15
Summers	5.0 miles	15
Rickert (historical)	5.1 miles	18
Clyde	5.9 miles	15

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 Suttle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7650176	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 58718. 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.