Truth, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. It lies near Big Sandy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Kingston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Truth within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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.

1900 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Eureka Springs quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Truth (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 595 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	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
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 2000	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Truth (historical): 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
B.F.Hodges Property	Manganese	Past Producer
Huntsville Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
War Eagle Lime Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Purdy	2.7 miles	12
Marble	3.7 miles	13
Old Alabam	4.1 miles	14
Wharton	4.8 miles	13
Harmony	4.8 miles	13
Alabam	5.1 miles	14
Huntsville	6.2 miles	13
Kingston	6.3 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q21551782

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 66414. 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.