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Hightower, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Burdette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72358. The Survey maps it on the Dell quadrangle.

Hightower within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

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 Hightower: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Stauffer Phosphate Deposit No.4Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown

Every working recorded in Mississippi 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
Cole Ridge2.2 miles9
Lowden2.3 miles11
Turner2.8 miles11
McFerrin2.8 miles11
Dell3.1 miles11
Wilson Junction3.3 miles11
Shonyo (historical)3.8 miles11
Dearman4.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57926. 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.

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.