Wager, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72713. It stands on Little Osage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wager within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Robinson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Wager (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,298 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	875 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BUTLER CREEK
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2012	Smoking	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wager (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Rocky Comfort	1.5 miles	17
Healing Springs	2.3 miles	17
Castleville (historical)	2.6 miles	17
Cannon (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Hoover (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Cave Springs	4.1 miles	17
Osage Mills	4.2 miles	17
Highfill	4.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76077. 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.