Lindsey, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Boas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72433. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alicia quadrangle.

Lindsey within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1935 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

54 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Lindsey between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,424 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2006	Natural	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2007	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Lindsey: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	D F Jones	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Minturn	1.3 miles	10
Arbor Grove	2.5 miles	12
Hopewell	3.9 miles	10
Clover Bend	4.1 miles	10
Lauratown	4.3 miles	12
Hoxie	4.7 miles	14
Calvin	4.8 miles	10
Bessie (historical)	5.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58069. 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.