BlockWards Crossing, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lamar Township. It stands on Hogan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plainview quadrangle.
On record in Wards Crossing
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Ward's Crossing Bridgelisted 2008 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
46 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wards Crossing between 1996 and 2017, burning about 529 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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 | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Natural | 3.7 acres | Ouachita National Forest | SMOKEY BEAR |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | 18 acres | Ouachita National Forest | BIG BRUSHY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wards Crossing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 | Clay | Past Producer |
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.
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 Q122560081 | 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 78695. 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.