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East Mountain, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bradley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72013. It lies near Lunsford Point. The Survey maps it on the Bee Branch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

East Mountain within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of East Mountain (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 797 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2

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
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarism70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 East Mountain (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Green Tree1.7 miles15
Morganton2.6 miles12
Choctaw Pines2.8 miles16
Bloomington (historical)2.8 miles16
Bee Branch2.9 miles12
Palisades3.7 miles16
Choctaw3.9 miles15
Sulphur Springs4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68662. 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.