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Bussey, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71861. The Survey maps it on the Bussey quadrangle.

Bussey within Columbia County

On record in Bussey

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Bussey between 1997 and 2018, burning about 2,033 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2

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
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCOL15878656
24 September 2000Arson/incendiarism33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bussey in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBussey-Trees and power lines were downed along County Road 15 east of the Bussey community.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBussey-Trees down along Highway 53.
October 2001Flash FloodBussey-Highway 371 was under 8 inches of water making driving difficult.
May 2003HailBussey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Experiment3.3 miles14
Sharman3.4 miles14
Taylor3.8 miles13
Friendship4.9 miles14
Rocky Mound4.9 miles15
Harmony5.4 miles15
Hunt5.6 miles15
Smithland6.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57480. 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.

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.