Welcome, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72843. It stands on Bradley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hector quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Welcome within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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 Morrillton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Morrillton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1894 USGS Morrilton quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hector quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Conway quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Hector quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Welcome between 1995 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. 6 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CLUB RICK
3 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	EVANS
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope 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
Leta (historical)	1.7 miles	16
Appleton	2.3 miles	18
Walnut Grove	2.5 miles	16
Hector	3.9 miles	16
Rock Springs	4.0 miles	16
Buttermilk	4.3 miles	16
Caglesville	4.9 miles	16
Boiling Springs (historical)	5.1 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	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980586	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 74044. 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.