White Cliffs, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Paraclifta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71846. The Survey maps it on the Ben Lomond quadrangle.

White Cliffs within Sevier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Ben Lomond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ben Lomond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of White Cliffs between 1998 and 2019, burning about 478 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
10 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	212 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	RED BARN
6 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier 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 White Cliffs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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	Calcium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Brownstown	1.5 miles	11
Paraloma	2.2 miles	11
Cowlingsville	3.6 miles	11
Ben Lomond	4.1 miles	11
Cornhill (historical)	4.2 miles	11
Millers Crossing	5.7 miles	11
Pennys	7.9 miles	10
Paraclifta (historical)	8.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78747. 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.