Luna, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 71653. It stands on Ferry Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Luna quadrangle. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Luna within Chicot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1939 USGS Refuge quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Luna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Luna between 2006 and 2015, burning about 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luna: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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
	Lee Mccort Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chicot 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
Vaucluse	2.6 miles	15
Leland	2.7 miles	15
Panther Forest	2.8 miles	14
Yellow Bayou	3.1 miles	14
Vinson (historical)	3.1 miles	15
Lakehall	5.1 miles	13
McMillan Corner	5.5 miles	14
Lake Village	5.5 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Luna	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6703480	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 58100. 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.