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Perkins, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Muddy Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. The Survey maps it on the Nathan quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Perkins within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Perkins between 1993 and 2017, burning about 1,188 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
7 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Perkins: 27 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Barium-Barite, Strontium. 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
Section 13 DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
V. B. Lewis PitStrontiumUnknown
Howard County GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Weyerhaeuser Mine and PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Howard 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
Briar1.1 miles12
Reed1.2 miles12
Corinth2.5 miles12
Muddy Fork4.5 miles12
Pump Springs (historical)5.5 miles12
Chapel Hill5.6 miles14
Center Point5.8 miles12
Green Plains6.2 miles12

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 Q108501706The 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 58347. 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.