Buffalolick, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72432. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buffalolick within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Dee quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dee quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Buffalolick (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 September 1999	Smoking	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 1998	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 February 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 February 2014	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	POI1461569

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buffalolick (historical): 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Poinsett 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
Gaulett	1.7 miles	9
Greenfield	2.7 miles	9
Mulligan	2.7 miles	9
Huskey	4.2 miles	9
Shady Grove	4.2 miles	9
Walnut Grove Corner	4.3 miles	9
Promised Land	5.8 miles	9
Ruffin (historical)	6.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65764. 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.