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Boydsville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72461. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boydsville quadrangle.

Boydsville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Boydsville between 1997 and 2017, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 January 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Boydsville: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Smoots Sand & Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stahl Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boydsville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBoydsville$25,000Straight line winds blew a roof and knocked down walls of a double wide mobile home along County Road 417 near Rector.
January 2000HailBoydsville$10no account filed
April 2020HailBoydsville-Irregularly shaped hail up to 2 inches in diameter fell in Knob.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindBoydsville-Straight line winds produced roof and siding damage to a house near Boydsville. Trees were uprooted along Highway 141 and Highway 90. In addition, a barn sustained damage.
June 2011HailBoydsville-Quarter size hail fell on County Road 272 between Corning and Piggott.
October 2009Flash FloodBoydsville-Heavy rain produced flash flooding around Clay County. Numerous roads were flooded as a result.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Lower Boydsville1.3 miles15
Crockett4.0 miles14
Tipperary4.7 miles15
Knob5.0 miles15
Hickoria5.0 miles14
Rector6.9 miles14
Pratt7.0 miles14
McDougal7.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57423. 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.