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Baker, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bear Creek No. 6 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It lies near Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Harriet quadrangle.

Baker within Searcy County

On record in Baker

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

68 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Baker between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,055 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking1
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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2012Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2006Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2006Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Baker: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
Searcy County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Searcy County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008Flash FloodBaker$150,000The city of Leslie was flooded. U.S. Highway 65 between Marshall and Leslie was also flooded.

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Marshall1.8 miles17
Martin Box2.1 miles15
Barren Hollow3.2 miles15
Jameson (historical)3.2 miles17
Shilo (historical)3.8 miles15
Begley (historical)3.9 miles15
Rock Springs3.9 miles15
Morning Star4.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 46024. 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.

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.