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Bryan, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Phipps Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hon quadrangle.

Bryan within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Bryan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,921 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 burning14
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOuachita National ForestLOTT FIRE
11 September 2002Smoking70 acresOuachita National ForestDOGWOOD
10 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forestnot named
1 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2020Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestSLATE FALLS
4 August 2003Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestBIG PINE
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOuachita National ForestDOGWOOD MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Bryan: 1 producer. All of them 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
Scott County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryan in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBryan-A large tree was blown down over Highway 28 just west of Hon, AR.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Oliver1.9 miles21
Hon2.3 miles31
Winfield4.0 miles31
Cauthron4.0 miles21
Evening Shade4.8 miles31
Sensation (historical)5.1 miles20
Anderson5.7 miles31
Pleasant Hill5.8 miles31

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 BryanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122710The 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 70947. 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.