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Tokalon, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cane Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72863. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle.

Tokalon within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Tokalon between 1999 and 2017, burning about 113 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tokalon: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arkansas Wild Rose Stone CoStone, DimensionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 3StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dublin1.0 miles20
Geren (historical)2.5 miles20
Johnson2.5 miles20
Morrison Bluff3.1 miles20
Scranton3.6 miles20
Prairie View3.8 miles20
Sommer (historical)4.0 miles20
Saint Scholastica5.0 miles20

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 TokalonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q88903115The 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 55588. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.