Walnut Corner, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Creek Township. The Survey maps it on the Lexa quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Walnut Corner within Phillips County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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.

1940 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Lexa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Corner between 1998 and 2015, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	7
Debris and open burning	3
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
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	29 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 February 2015	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 November 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips 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
Barton	0.5 miles	13
Lake Ridge	1.9 miles	13
Latour	2.0 miles	16
Blackfoot	2.3 miles	13
Wycamp	2.8 miles	16
North Creek (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Kindall	2.8 miles	13
Pillar	2.8 miles	16

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 Walnut Corner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7963568	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 55995. 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.