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Bone Town, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pleasant Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72577. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle.

Bone Town within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

137 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Bone Town between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,361 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bone Town: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. 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
Crutchfield FarmManganeseOccurrence
L.C.Crutchfield DepositIronOccurrence
UnkIronUnknown
Black Rock Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bone Town in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2022Thunderstorm WindBone Town$80,000Two barns on Finely Creek Rd. sustained damage, and multiple mobile homes were blown off of their blocks on Piney Cove Rd.

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Sage2.1 miles9
Zion2.5 miles9
Stella2.7 miles9
Needmore4.5 miles8
LaCrosse4.7 miles9
Mount Pleasant5.8 miles19
Gid6.2 miles19
Larkin6.7 miles9

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 Q122594944The 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 65858. 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.