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Vest, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Athens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72556. It lies near Turkey Knob. The Survey maps it on the Boswell quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Vest within Izard County

On record in Vest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

119 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Vest (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,032 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
3 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR
12 September 2000Natural9.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCHRIS
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard 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
Boswell0.8 miles19
Gorby3.6 miles19
Mount Olive3.7 miles19
Creswell4.2 miles19
Jumbo4.6 miles10
Arkins (historical)4.6 miles16
Brandenburg4.7 miles16
Knob Creek4.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65919. 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.