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Archey Valley, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Archey Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. The Survey maps it on the Alread quadrangle.

Archey Valley within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Archey Valley between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,006 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2016Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Archey Valley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chimes0.7 miles15
Woolum3.4 miles15
Rupert4.7 miles15
Zion Hill4.9 miles22
Alread5.0 miles15
Copeland5.0 miles15
Dabney5.5 miles22
Rex6.6 miles16

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 Q122550775The 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 68642. 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.