Gorby, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Claiborne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72519. It stands on Bailey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boswell quadrangle.

Gorby within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Boswell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

124 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Gorby between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2,951 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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	47
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2

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 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2011	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard 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
Creswell	2.7 miles	19
Forty Four	3.0 miles	17
Calico Rock	3.4 miles	19
Vest (historical)	3.6 miles	19
Boswell	4.4 miles	19
Pineville	4.5 miles	17
Knob Creek	4.8 miles	10
Pleasant Valley	5.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71790. 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.