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Lemsford, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chickasawba Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72315. It lies near Sandy Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Luxora quadrangle.

Lemsford within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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 Lemsford: 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
Dogwood2.4 miles10
Clear Lake2.4 miles10
Burdette3.0 miles9
Tuckertown3.4 miles9
Toluca4.0 miles9
Cole Ridge4.4 miles9
Promised Land4.5 miles12
Blytheville4.8 miles10

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 Q122563193The 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 59455. 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.