Colona, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. It stands on Miller Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grays quadrangle.

Colona within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
1971 USGS Grays quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Colona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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	11
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
21 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2008	Debris and open burning	155 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2004	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2004	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	7.7 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	BLEIDT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff 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 Colona: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
	Penn	Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodruff 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
Grays	2.4 miles	12
Wiville	3.0 miles	12
DeView	3.2 miles	12
Revel	3.6 miles	13
Beard (historical)	3.6 miles	13
Tip	4.1 miles	12
Patterson	4.5 miles	10
Flynn (historical)	4.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57574. 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.