Weeks, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. The Survey maps it on the Bates quadrangle.

Weeks within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #2 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bates quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Bates quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Weeks between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,376 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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	21
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Natural	7.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEECH
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
26 August 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Coaldale	1.8 miles	21
Gipson	2.1 miles	21
Bates	2.5 miles	21
Morgan Springs	4.6 miles	21
Brawley	5.9 miles	20
Puryear	6.3 miles	22
Cauthron	7.0 miles	21
Sensation (historical)	7.7 miles	20

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 Weeks	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122806	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 78714. 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.