Faulknerville, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72412. The Survey maps it on the Walcott quadrangle.

Faulknerville within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Walcott quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Faulknerville between 1999 and 2005, burning about 145 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 March 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 November 2005	Arson/incendiarism	96 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Faulknerville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Light	2.2 miles	14
Stanford	4.4 miles	14
Walnut Corner	4.6 miles	14
Commissary (historical)	5.5 miles	14
Walcott	5.7 miles	14
Black Jack	5.8 miles	14
Evening Star	5.9 miles	14
Ebenezer	6.3 miles	14

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 Q122564347

The 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 64794. 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.