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Crain City, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. The Survey maps it on the Calion quadrangle.

Crain City within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

85 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Crain City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Crain City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Perdue City1.9 miles18
Ritchie2.2 miles15
Old Union2.8 miles18
Champagnolle3.1 miles15
Calion4.5 miles15
Smithville4.6 miles18
Lawson5.1 miles16
Kinard5.1 miles18

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 Q122590608The 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 57599. 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.