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Experiment, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71860. The Survey maps it on the Bussey quadrangle.

Experiment within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Experiment between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,850 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
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
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Arson/incendiarism244 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionLAKE ERLING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Experiment: 14 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, 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
McKamie Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Friendship2.0 miles14
Sharman3.0 miles14
Bussey3.3 miles14
Smithland4.8 miles14
Hunt6.1 miles15
Box Springs6.6 miles13
Rocky Mound6.8 miles15
Dodson6.9 miles15

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 Q18326185The 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 57734. 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.