BlockVanness Crossing, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72360. It stands on Holcomb Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Soudan quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 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 Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Park Place quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Soudan quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Vanness Crossing between 1997 and 2015, burning about 267 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 239 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 November 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 October 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 October 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 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.
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 Q122556400 | 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 58795. 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.