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Cooleyville, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brewer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. It stands on Sanford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nathan quadrangle.

Cooleyville within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Cooleyville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning9
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Smoking20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cooleyville: 20 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Strontium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Salt Gum FordMercuryUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
V. B. Lewis PitStrontiumUnknown
Arkansas Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
F S Neely Co MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Highland MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Highland1.0 miles12
Ball (historical)3.3 miles13
Maxwell (historical)3.5 miles13
Roy3.8 miles13
Norvelle (historical)4.0 miles12
Kimberley4.4 miles13
Murfreesboro4.9 miles13
Nathan6.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57581. 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.