BlockYuma, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Watensaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72064. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yuma (historical) between 1999 and 2015, burning about 53 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 February 2007 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hallsville | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Bucks Landing | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Gospoda | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mesa | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| De Valls Bluff | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Biscoe | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Letchworth | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Beulah | 5.4 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77330. 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.