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Walnut Grove Corner, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72472. The Survey maps it on the Trumann quadrangle.

Walnut Grove Corner within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove Corner between 1998 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
25 September 1999Smoking13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2006Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 March 1998Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 February 2009Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 February 2015Debris and open burning95 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Grove Corner: 4 unknowns. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Poinsett 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
Promised Land2.0 miles9
Huskey2.6 miles9
McCormick2.8 miles9
Maple Grove3.5 miles9
Shady Grove3.5 miles9
Ruffin (historical)3.9 miles9
Landers4.1 miles9
Whitaker4.2 miles9

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 Q122541852The 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 58821. 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.