Dry Creek, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72675. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eula quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dry Creek within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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.

1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Eula quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Dry Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,072 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2001	Natural	4.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	AUGUST
2 August 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	Buffalo National River	MCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
15 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ICELEDO
7 June 1997	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Buffalo National River	FLAT ROCK
4 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MAGIC
23 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	NEW1716692

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Dry Creek (historical): 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Turkey Fat Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Lost Mountain Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Upper Cave Creek	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy 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
Eula	0.4 miles	20
Hall (historical)	2.1 miles	20
Horn Mountain (historical)	2.9 miles	20
Slicker (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Point Peter	4.0 miles	20
Snowball	4.3 miles	19
Leigo (historical)	4.4 miles	21
Blanco	5.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69956. 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.