Burnt Cane, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Griggs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72394. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Burnt Cane within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 Madison quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1965 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Cane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
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
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ROUND POND
29 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 1992	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ROUNDPOND1
11 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 February 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 November 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	ST 4022924
31 October 2001	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis 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 Burnt Cane: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	M Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis 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
Burnt Cane Crossing	2.1 miles	18
Widener	2.6 miles	14
Shepperd Crossing	2.7 miles	18
Kingsley Crossing	2.9 miles	18
Linders Mill (historical)	3.2 miles	18
Lakeside	3.2 miles	18
Riverside	3.3 miles	20
Round Pond	3.4 miles	13

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 Q122565064

The 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 83016. 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.