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Witherspoon, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 71923. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Donaldson quadrangle.

Witherspoon within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

103 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Witherspoon between 1997 and 2019, burning about 659 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Witherspoon: 14 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caddo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkadelphia Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Deroche Creek QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring 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
Faber2.9 miles9
Brown Springs3.6 miles9
Friendship4.5 miles9
Donaldson6.4 miles9
Midway6.7 miles11
Caney8.2 miles7
Saginaw10.1 miles11
Elmore (historical)10.3 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122566960The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57237. 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.