Leon, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72933. It lies near Pine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Barber quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Leon within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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.

1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1906 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Barber quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Barber quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Barber quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Barber quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Leon (historical) between 1997 and 2018, burning about 558 acres in total. 5 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 burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

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 Leon (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Stone Co	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Effa (historical)	3.3 miles	19
Thessing (historical)	3.9 miles	22
Charleston	4.3 miles	22
Branch	5.4 miles	19
Fealey (historical)	5.6 miles	19
Donald (historical)	6.8 miles	19
Dahoma (historical)	8.4 miles	19
Peter Pender	9.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63015. 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.