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Boyd, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71837. The Survey maps it on the Fouke quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Boyd within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

291 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Boyd between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,469 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 70 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism70
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMIL15158979
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Boyd: 34 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
UnkGemstonePast Producer
F.P.Post PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fouke Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyd in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
July 2022LightningBoyd$1,000Storage building caught fire due to a lightning strike on County Road 483.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Trees were downed along County Road 10 several miles north of Fouke.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Several trees and power lines downed on Highway 71.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Trees down at the intersection of County Road 10 and County Road 29.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Two large trees downed at a residence on County Road 481, one uprooted and the other snapped.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Trees and power lines were blown down across County Roads 216, 217, and 43 just northwest of Fouke.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBoyd-Powerlines were downed along Hwy. 71 south of CR. 10.
February 2013HailBoyd-Hail fell north of Fouke, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Ferguson Crossroads1.5 miles16
Sylverino1.8 miles16
Genoa3.0 miles15
Mount Pleasant3.8 miles15
Wona (historical)3.8 miles15
Roberts (historical)4.7 miles16
Gertrude5.4 miles15
Pleasant Hill5.5 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on BoydAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4952287The 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 57420. 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.