Yukon, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Walnut Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71662. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Yukon within Desha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Red Fork quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yukon between 1998 and 2009, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 March 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 December 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 November 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 January 1998	Recreation and ceremony	5.6 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	OAKWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yukon in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Yukon	$1,000	A tree and large limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Hopedale (historical)	0.8 miles	14
Omega	1.7 miles	14
Pickens	3.4 miles	14
Dumas	6.2 miles	14
Reed	6.8 miles	13
Mitchellville	7.6 miles	14
Oaklawn	8.3 miles	14
Reedville	9.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57244. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.