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Hickory Valley, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Barren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72521. The Survey maps it on the Cave City quadrangle.

Hickory Valley within Independence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

168 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,645 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 65 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/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Valley: 31 past producers, 11 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Limestone, General, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Hickory ValleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Limedale Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralProducer
UnkLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Upper Cave Crk Manganese CarbonateManganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
A G Gray MineManganesePast Producer1918
Bales MineManganesePast Producer1909
Dunegan MineManganesePast Producer1918
E.W.Roach ProspectManganesePast Producer
Eliza Patterson ProspectManganesePast Producer
G A WilsonManganesePast Producer1918

Every working recorded in Independence 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
Sandtown4.2 miles18
Pfeiffer5.2 miles20
Sharp5.8 miles20
Gainsboro7.0 miles20
Blowing Cave (historical)7.4 miles20
Charlotte8.2 miles11
Rogers Addition8.8 miles20
Moorefield8.8 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77177. 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.