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Liberty, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Delaware Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72835. It stands on West Fork Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Liberty within Logan County

On record in Liberty

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1995 and 2018, burning about 1,614 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2006Natural1.3 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBROCK #2
17 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural262 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBROCK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 10 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Dimension. 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
Arkansas Ledge Stone CoStone, DimensionPast Producer
Rv MtnStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Unk Gravel Quarries 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 3StoneProspect
Unk Quarries 4StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan 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
New Blaine3.1 miles20
Delaware3.4 miles19
Riverside4.2 miles19
Shady Grove4.5 miles18
Sommer (historical)5.0 miles20
Saint Scholastica5.6 miles20
Johnson6.4 miles20
Shoal Creek6.6 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72318. 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.