West Point, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72734. The Survey maps it on the Cherokee City quadrangle.

West Point within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1899 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Cherokee City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 1992 and 2018, burning about 696 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Smoking	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 2000	Smoking	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
28 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30382
26 July 2012	Natural	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 West Point: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cherokee City Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Bloomfield	2.2 miles	19
Dawn Hill	3.1 miles	19
Cherokee City	3.2 miles	19
Bozarth (historical)	4.0 miles	19
Gentry	4.4 miles	16
Hico	4.5 miles	19
Siloam Springs	4.7 miles	19
Twin Springs	4.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58857. 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.