Wittsburg, Arkansas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Wittsburg Store and Gas Stationlisted 2000

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.

• 1940 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
• 1965 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
• 1984 USGS Wittsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Wittsburg between 1998 and 2017, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Budsmith (historical)
• Levesque
• Wynne
• River Front
• Flag Lake Crossing
• Fitzgerald Crossing

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Wittsburg: 8 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cross County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58904. 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.