Three Forks, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tyronza Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72331. The Survey maps it on the Earle quadrangle.

Three Forks within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Earle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Three Forks between 2007 and 2017, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden 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
Cloar	2.0 miles	11
Poindexter	2.5 miles	11
Norvell	4.4 miles	11
Earle	4.5 miles	11
Shannonville	5.3 miles	11
Grassy Lake Bottom	5.5 miles	11
Heafer	5.9 miles	10
Crittenden	6.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58744. 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.