Yoestown, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in District 8. It lies in ZIP code area 72921. It stands on Mays Branch. The Survey maps it on the Alma quadrangle.

Yoestown within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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 Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1906 USGS Lavaca quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Lavaca quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Yoestown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Smoking	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2012	Smoking	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
New Town	1.6 miles	22
Kibler	2.8 miles	22
Cross Lanes	3.0 miles	22
Alma	4.1 miles	22
Westville	4.3 miles	28
Dyer	4.9 miles	22
Concord	5.1 miles	28
New Haroldton	5.2 miles	25

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 Q122563394

The 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 78824. 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.