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Kay, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roc Roe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72160. The Survey maps it on the Stuttgart North quadrangle.

Kay within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kay between 2000 and 2020, burning about 149 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 September 2000Debris and open burning98 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2008Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
Beecher (historical)1.5 miles15
Fairmount2.8 miles15
Nahay (historical)3.0 miles16
Slovaktown (historical)3.8 miles16
Slovak4.1 miles16
Ulm4.8 miles15
Bardill (historical)5.3 miles15
Leighton (historical)6.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58005. 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.