Phillips Bayou, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hardy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72360. It lies near Morrells Hill. The Survey maps it on the La Grange quadrangle.

Phillips Bayou within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1939 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Phillips Bayou between 1992 and 2018, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BLAIR
3 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SAND
25 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SYCAMORE
5 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ELM
5 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	POPCORN
6 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CANE
6 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BULL RUSH
25 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HANNON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Haleside	4.9 miles	16
La Grange	5.0 miles	16
Jeffersonville	5.4 miles	16
Cypress Corner	6.8 miles	12
Greer Place	7.4 miles	17
Oakwood	8.0 miles	16
Kincade Bayou (historical)	8.2 miles	18
Scott Valley	8.8 miles	12

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 Q122599004

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 58358. 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.