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Dabney, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wheeler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72080. The Survey maps it on the Tilly quadrangle. It stands 1,526 feet above sea level.

Dabney within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 22 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Dabney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,585 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2013Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEASTFORK
23 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2012Natural10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMAC
23 June 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsNOGO
4 April 2016Debris and open burning5.6 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsARMSTEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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
Zion Hill2.2 miles22
Koones Gulf (historical)4.7 miles21
Rex4.7 miles16
Rupert5.1 miles15
Chimes5.2 miles15
Archey Valley5.5 miles15
Alread5.7 miles15
Latham (historical)6.6 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on DabneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5207500The 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 71325. 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.