Woodlawn, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Leake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71764. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Woodlawn within Nevada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1901 USGS Gurdon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Troy quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Chidester quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

143 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,770 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 63 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	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada 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
Mendenhall	2.6 miles	16
Nevark	3.6 miles	16
Glenville	4.3 miles	13
Young	5.0 miles	16
Caney (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Ames	6.4 miles	16
Waterloo	6.8 miles	16
Davidson	7.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60473. 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.