Budsmith, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72396. The Survey maps it on the Wittsburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Budsmith within Cross County

On record in Budsmith

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

John H. Johnston Cotton Gin Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away
Capt. Isaac N. Deadrick Houselisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1940 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Wittsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Budsmith (historical) between 1998 and 2016, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 June 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	CRO3161712
3 April 2004	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Budsmith (historical): 10 unknowns, 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 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	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Adkinsson Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Baskins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bay Road Material Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brawner	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cross County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kail Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Killough	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cross 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
Levesque	0.9 miles	13
Wittsburg	1.9 miles	13
River Front	3.4 miles	12
Wynne	3.5 miles	12
Princedale	4.4 miles	12
Flag Lake Crossing	4.4 miles	13
Vanndale	5.7 miles	11
Fitzgerald Crossing	6.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61628. 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.