Careyville Landing, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moro Bay quadrangle.

Careyville Landing within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1934 USGS Moro Bay quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Moro Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Moro Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
1981 USGS Moro Bay quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

45 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Careyville Landing between 1998 and 2019, burning about 230 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pigeon Hill

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Pigeon Hill	2.6 miles	17
McGlendon Mill	5.0 miles	16
New London	5.4 miles	16
Sawmill	7.8 miles	16
New Union	7.8 miles	19
Urbana	10.2 miles	16
Payne	10.3 miles	16
Lawson	10.3 miles	16

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 Q122592335

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 57509. 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.