Welcome Home, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72650. It lies near Bradley Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Witts Springs quadrangle. It stands 1,883 feet above sea level.

Welcome Home within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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.

1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Snowball SE quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Witts Springs quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

50 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Welcome Home between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,427 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
24 August 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2012	Natural	19 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2011	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Welcome Home: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy 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
Imo	1.5 miles	20
Bohannon	2.9 miles	20
Kay	4.5 miles	16
Bear Creek	4.6 miles	20
Witts Springs	5.0 miles	20
Magic Springs	5.7 miles	20
Booster	6.1 miles	15
Watts	7.0 miles	16

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 Welcome Home	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980619	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 59395. 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.