Walnut Springs, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Paraclifta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71842. The Survey maps it on the Horatio quadrangle.

Walnut Springs within Sevier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1951 USGS Horatio quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Springs between 1997 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge	POND CREEK WF #1
3 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge	GRAVEL PIT FIRE
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Springs: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, Copper, Antimony, Silver. 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
	Bob Wolf Mine	Copper, Antimony, Silver	Occurrence	Cervantite, Galena, Stibnite
	Dequeen Rock Quarry	Flagstone	Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Norwoodville	1.6 miles	10
Williamson	2.0 miles	10
Dilworth	2.4 miles	10
Stringtown	2.7 miles	10
Horatio	3.5 miles	10
Neal Springs	4.7 miles	10
Wade	5.4 miles	11
Geneva	5.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58823. 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.