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Witts Springs, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72686. The Survey maps it on the Witts Springs quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,916 feet above sea level.

Witts Springs within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Witts Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,298 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 2011Natural10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsJACKSON
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2015Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsJULY
21 July 2012Natural6.7 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGARRISON
16 July 2012Natural19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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
Magic Springs3.3 miles20
Welcome Home5.0 miles20
Bohannon5.1 miles20
Imo6.2 miles20
Leigo (historical)6.4 miles21
Bear Creek6.8 miles20
Slicker (historical)7.7 miles19
Marsena8.6 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on Witts SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8028635The 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 78795. 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.