Whitetown, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pencil Bluff Township. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sims quadrangle.

Whitetown within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Sims quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Whitetown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 356 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 39 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	39
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	FIDDLER #2
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	FIDDLER #1
29 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BRUSHY CREEK
1 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	RAINEY CREEK
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	CHASEWOOD
30 August 1997	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SIMS
29 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BLOWOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Whitetown: 6 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Barium-Barite. 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	Recorded
Hoyt-Williams Prospect	Barium-Barite	Unknown
Magic Presance Mine	Quartz	Past Producer	1986, 1987
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Pencil Bluff	0.6 miles	15
Oden	1.8 miles	15
Hog Jaw	2.2 miles	15
Sims	3.5 miles	15
Chasewood Landing	3.8 miles	15
Mauldin	4.9 miles	15
Gaston	5.8 miles	15
Huddleston	6.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 74134. 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.