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Buddys Landing, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Ida Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71970. The Survey maps it on the Reed Mountain quadrangle.

Buddys Landing within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Buddys Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,014 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning12
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestSTORY
20 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOuachita National ForestBIG BRANCH
2 September 2007Natural12 acresOuachita National ForestLAKESIDE
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestWEST
11 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Buddys Landing: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Quartz. 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
Diamond Drill Carbon #3QuartzUnknown
George Shieffield No. 2 MineQuartzUnknown
Oden MineQuartzProducer1986

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Rubie2.0 miles15
Washita2.0 miles15
Ruble2.1 miles15
Little Fir Landing3.7 miles14
Sweethome3.8 miles15
Gibbs4.7 miles15
Story4.9 miles15
Fir (historical)6.1 miles14

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 Q122595316The 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 70908. 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.