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Barney, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Enola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72047. It lies near Wolf Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Barney quadrangle.

Barney within Faulkner County

On record in Barney

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

8 surveys from 10 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

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Barney between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,425 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner 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 Barney: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barney in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2003Tornado (F1)Barney-A weak tornado touched down in Faulkner County and passed just to the north of Barney. The tornado tracked over rural areas, downing some trees and power lines.
April 2011HailBarney-no account filed
August 1999HailBarney-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBarney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Centerville3.0 miles12
Garland Springs3.3 miles10
Enola3.9 miles10
McGintytown4.5 miles11
Mount Vernon4.7 miles11
Hawthicket (historical)5.1 miles10
Enders5.3 miles10
Naylor6.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57331. 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.