The Pines, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It lies near Bohnstein Hill. The Survey maps it on the Boles quadrangle.

The Pines within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1879 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #1 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1939 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Boles quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

84 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of The Pines between 1993 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	THREE DOGS
10 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Waldron	2.4 miles	31
Pleasant Valley	3.6 miles	31
Pleasant Hill	3.8 miles	31
Anderson	4.1 miles	31
Needmore	4.3 miles	31
Green Ridge	4.6 miles	31
Buffalo (historical)	4.9 miles	31
Keener	5.4 miles	31

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 The Pines	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122801	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 73850. 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.