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Hand, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 11. It lies in ZIP code area 72519. It stands on Barren Fork. The Survey maps it on the Norfork Dam North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hand within Baxter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

115 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Hand (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,548 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter 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 Hand (historical): 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Baxter 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
Timber Lake Manor1.2 miles18
Woods Point Landing1.7 miles18
Wake (historical)2.2 miles18
Covey (historical)2.3 miles18
Diamond Bay2.9 miles18
Rodney2.9 miles19
Spencer (historical)3.1 miles18
Jordan3.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69380. 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.