Wayside, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71929. It lies near Point Cedar Mountains. The Survey maps it on the Point Cedar quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wayside within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Point Cedar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Arkadelphia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Wayside (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,195 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 53 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wayside (historical): 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Clay, Slate, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Glenwood	Clay	Past Producer
Glenwood #2	Slate, Dimension	Producer
Price-Williams Lead-Zinc Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hot Spring 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
Point Cedar	1.7 miles	8
Mount Moriah	3.7 miles	8
Beaton	4.2 miles	8
Bonnerdale	4.4 miles	7
Cross Roads	5.0 miles	7
Lambert	6.3 miles	8
Bismarck	7.9 miles	8
Oak Bower	9.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66145. 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.