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Koones Gulf, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near Hatley Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lost Corner quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Koones Gulf within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 21 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

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Koones Gulf (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
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
9 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Natural12 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCANT GET THERE
26 July 2011Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTRIGGER
25 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use89 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLIBERTY SPRINGS
23 June 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2016Debris and open burning5.6 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsARMSTEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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
Austin3.2 miles21
Latham (historical)3.2 miles16
Rex3.6 miles16
Dabney4.7 miles22
Liberty Springs (historical)5.4 miles16
Rupert5.7 miles15
Williams Gulf (historical)5.8 miles16
Gridley (historical)5.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68676. 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.