Peanut, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Peanut within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1906 USGS Batson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Peanut between 1992 and 2018, burning about 398 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KIDD
30 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SINCLAIR #3
13 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BIG FLAT
1 May 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
7 April 2006	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	YALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peanut: 1 past producer. None of them 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Beach Grove	2.0 miles	10
Pittston Junction	2.3 miles	10
Mineral Springs	2.7 miles	10
Mountain Top	3.8 miles	10
Redding	3.8 miles	15
West Cobb	4.4 miles	15
Cass	6.1 miles	15
Barnes	6.7 miles	15

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 Peanut	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988767	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 73027. 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.