Boyle, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72519. It lies near Caney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Calico Rock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Boyle within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Calico Rock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Boyle (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	2
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
6 September 1995	Natural	12 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHUCK
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MCGOWN
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TIE RIDGE
12 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHRIS
9 August 1996	Natural	15 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HOG
6 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FREEMAN
5 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	POWERLINE 2
30 August 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boyle (historical): 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stone 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
Optimus	4.1 miles	19
Hedges (historical)	5.0 miles	16
Fiftysix	6.0 miles	16
Oga (historical)	8.0 miles	15
Gayler	8.3 miles	16
Allison	8.7 miles	16
Pleasant Hill	10.1 miles	15
Big Springs	10.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65826. 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.