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Hoover Landing, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bristow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72455. It stands on Straight Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manson quadrangle.

Hoover Landing within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hoover Landing between 1997 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 1998Debris and open burning18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hoover Landing: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Unknown IronIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Manson1.5 miles12
Elnora1.8 miles12
Shannon2.2 miles12
Lesterville3.1 miles12
Noland3.3 miles12
Davidsonville (historical)4.2 miles12
East Pocahontas4.6 miles12
Fender5.0 miles12

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122596066The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57939. 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.