Little Bay, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Township 6. It lies in ZIP code area 71744. It stands on Blackwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snow Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Little Bay within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Snow Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Smackover quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

87 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Little Bay (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 910 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Natural	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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
Newport	3.7 miles	16
Delhi (historical)	4.8 miles	16
Artesian	8.6 miles	17
Locust Bayou	8.9 miles	16
Hampton	11.1 miles	12
Unco	11.4 miles	17
Woodberry	11.9 miles	16
Smead (historical)	12.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75309. 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.