Irby, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lucas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72348. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Irby within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1931 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Horseshoe Lake NE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Irby (historical) in 1996, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 March 1996	Smoking	2.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pinckney	1.4 miles	19
Thompson	1.4 miles	11
Ninetysix Corner	2.3 miles	11
Anthonyville	3.4 miles	11
Anthony Subdivision	3.4 miles	11
Thompson Grove	3.4 miles	19
Topaz	3.7 miles	11
Simsboro	3.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 67787. 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.