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Graytown, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72016. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martindale quadrangle.

Graytown within Perry County

On record in Graytown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Graytown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 932 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Graytown: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harris ProspectManganeseProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bigelow0.5 miles17
Fourche0.8 miles16
Kenney (historical)1.7 miles16
Pleasant Valley2.6 miles16
Dixie (historical)3.1 miles17
Rankin (historical)3.5 miles16
New Dixie3.5 miles17
Houston4.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65212. 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.