Friley, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Batson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72752. It stands on Friley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle.

Friley within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1906 USGS Batson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Friley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	DUTTON
13 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BIG FLAT
1 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	JOH1765984
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	YALE
5 April 2000	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PETTIGREW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Oark	4.0 miles	10
Yale	4.2 miles	10
Catalpa	6.0 miles	10
Batson	7.5 miles	10
Linville (historical)	8.0 miles	10
Oak Grove	8.6 miles	10
Dale (historical)	8.8 miles	10
Farris Springs	10.5 miles	13

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 Q122572878

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 71697. 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.