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Donbey, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montrose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71658. The Survey maps it on the Snyder quadrangle.

Donbey within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Donbey between 2001 and 2018, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
28 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 March 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 March 2014Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionASH4470767
11 March 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionASH4369807
26 February 2011Debris and open burning28 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 December 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley 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
Lloyd1.9 miles13
Thebes2.1 miles13
Montrose3.0 miles13
Post Oak3.5 miles13
Snyder3.9 miles13
Trafalgar4.3 miles13
Portland4.9 miles16
Mount Pleasant5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122561264The 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 62344. 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.