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New Liberty, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Violet Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72584. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

New Liberty within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of New Liberty between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,170 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard 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 New Liberty: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
L.C.Crutchfield DepositIronOccurrence
Black Rock Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard 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
Larkin1.4 miles9
Jett (historical)1.7 miles10
Violet Hill2.0 miles10
LaCrosse3.1 miles9
Brockwell3.3 miles10
Belview4.0 miles10
Twin Bridges4.5 miles10
Newburg4.5 miles10

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 Q135192834The 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 65891. 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.