Westbrook, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Redland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71847. The Survey maps it on the McCaskill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Westbrook within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1951 USGS McCaskill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Westbrook (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 661 acres in total. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Westbrook (historical): 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Al Ross	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead 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
McCaskill	1.6 miles	14
Dotson Station (historical)	2.4 miles	14
Dotson	2.5 miles	14
Belton (historical)	3.2 miles	14
Kilgore (historical)	3.8 miles	14
Blevins	5.8 miles	15
Wallaceburg	5.9 miles	14
Doyle	6.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61426. 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.