Day, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72513. The Survey maps it on the Myron quadrangle.

Day within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Myron quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Cherokee Village quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

136 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Day between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,755 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 burning	57
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	10

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
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Day: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Glen C.Brewster Property	Manganese	Occurrence
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Izard 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
Horseshoe Bend	2.0 miles	10
Myron	4.0 miles	9
Wiseman	4.7 miles	10
Franklin	5.4 miles	10
Love (historical)	6.5 miles	9
Violet Hill	8.4 miles	10
Jett (historical)	10.4 miles	10
New Liberty	10.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56985. 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.