BlockTip, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. The Survey maps it on the Grays quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1971 USGS Grays quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Tip between 1999 and 2018, burning about 335 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 119 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 155 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | THREE FORKS |
| 11 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58747. 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.