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Whiskerville, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cache Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. It stands on Tupelo Slough. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Ridge SE quadrangle.

Whiskerville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Whiskerville between 2002 and 2007, burning about 196 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 April 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2003Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 November 2005Arson/incendiarism96 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 January 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Murta4.3 miles14
Dicus6.5 miles14
College City6.7 miles12
Aa Junction7.3 miles14
Walnut Ridge8.4 miles14
Ponders9.3 miles14
Hoxie9.8 miles14
Sedgwick10.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58864. 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.