Old Piney, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71655. The Survey maps it on the Collins NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Old Piney within Drew County

On record in Old Piney

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Old Piney Cemeterylisted 2022 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Cominto quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Collins quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Collins NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Old Piney (historical) between 2001 and 2019, burning about 1,120 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	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
7 September 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Natural	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	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 Drew 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
Sixteenth Section	1.9 miles	14
Enon	4.3 miles	14
Selma	5.3 miles	14
Jeter (historical)	5.7 miles	14
Killin	5.8 miles	14
Deane	5.9 miles	14
Old Union (historical)	6.0 miles	14
Jade (historical)	6.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 79057. 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.