Lower Boydsville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72461. It stands on North Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boydsville quadrangle.

Lower Boydsville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Rector quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Boydsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lower Boydsville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 January 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lower Boydsville: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Smoots Sand & Gravel Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stahl Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Boydsville	1.3 miles	15
Tipperary	3.4 miles	15
Knob	4.2 miles	15
Hickoria	4.4 miles	14
Crockett	5.0 miles	14
Walnut Grove	6.7 miles	14
Cache Lake	7.1 miles	14
McDougal	7.4 miles	14

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 Q122567990

The 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 62507. 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.