Caney, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71858. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Caney within Nevada County

On record in Caney

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 1 record

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

Camden to Washington Road-Rosston Segmentlisted 2009 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1901 USGS Gurdon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Chidester quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Hope quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

66 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Caney (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,809 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada 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
Young	2.2 miles	16
Mendenhall	2.6 miles	16
Nevark	2.6 miles	16
Ames	4.0 miles	16
Woodlawn (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Oak Grove	5.2 miles	16
Zama (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Foss (historical)	5.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60468. 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.