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Macey, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72447. The Survey maps it on the Leachville quadrangle.

Macey within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Macey between 1999 and 2014, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 January 2014Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR PEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead 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
Childress2.6 miles10
Monette2.7 miles10
Delfore3.4 miles10
Upper Poplar Ridge3.5 miles10
Dixie4.9 miles10
Schug5.1 miles10
Lake View5.5 miles10
Lester6.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78943. 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.