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Half Moon, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Linn Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It stands on Half Moon Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Oxley quadrangle.

Half Moon within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Half Moon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,485 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Half Moon: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Elba1.2 miles15
Plant3.1 miles16
Dennard5.2 miles15
Botkinburg6.4 miles16
Oak Flat (historical)6.6 miles15
Old Botkinburg6.6 miles16
Rocky Hill8.4 miles16
Shirley9.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68672. 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.