Barber, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. It stands on Cutoff Slough. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Barber within White County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Barber (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2000	Smoking	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White 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 Barber (historical): 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in White 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
Wranes (historical)	0.7 miles	13
Enright	1.4 miles	13
Pryor	1.4 miles	13
Andrews	2.6 miles	13
Nimmo	3.1 miles	15
Ellen (historical)	3.8 miles	13
Georgetown	4.5 miles	15
Showalters Corner	4.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65035. 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.