Gibson, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gilkerson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72404. It stands on Steep Cut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herman quadrangle.

Gibson within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Herman quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gibson between 1999 and 2017, burning about 154 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 1999	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 February 2016	Smoking	98 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 February 2016	Smoking	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gibson: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jonesboro Brick Co	Clay	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Craighead 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
Gilkerson	1.9 miles	11
Otwell	3.7 miles	12
Valley View	3.9 miles	11
Obear (historical)	4.5 miles	12
Herman	5.3 miles	11
Dryden	6.3 miles	11
Scarb (historical)	6.4 miles	11
Winesburg	6.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57813. 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.