Hand Valley, Arkansas

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 Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Buffalo City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Hand Valley between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,288 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 31 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rea Valley
• Old Buffalo
• Peel
• Flippin
• Keystone (historical)
• Monarch

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Hand Valley: 10 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Marion County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71894. 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.