Fomby, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 71822. The Survey maps it on the Ashdown East quadrangle.

Fomby within Little River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Ashdown East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ashdown East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Fomby between 1997 and 2018, burning about 631 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	124 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	RED BLUFF
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	49 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Little River County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fomby: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Little River 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
Millwood	1.5 miles	15
Long	1.7 miles	11
Cole	2.3 miles	15
Yarborough Landing	2.9 miles	11
Red Bluff	3.5 miles	15
Jacks Isle	3.6 miles	11
Peytonville	3.8 miles	11
Orton	5.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60105. 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.