Barkada, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71655. The Survey maps it on the Wilmar North quadrangle.

Barkada within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Wilmar North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

67 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Barkada between 2001 and 2020, burning about 951 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	41 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Barkada: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
H L Oneill & Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Drew 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
Allis	3.1 miles	9
Brandon	3.3 miles	9
Wilmar	3.4 miles	9
Tennessee	4.1 miles	9
Rose Hill	4.7 miles	9
Rock Springs	6.1 miles	10
Montongo	6.4 miles	9
Plantersville	6.6 miles	10

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 Q122595064

The 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 57329. 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.