Plum Bayou, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bolivar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72046. It stands on Davis Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Wright quadrangle. It stands 226 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Plum Bayou within Jefferson 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.

1932 USGS Pastoria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1935 USGS Pastoria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Wright quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Plum Bayou (historical) between 2001 and 2019, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2015	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	42 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	48 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 October 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Wright	2.3 miles	12
Red Bluff (historical)	5.1 miles	12
Ferda	5.4 miles	13
Secrest (historical)	5.4 miles	13
Tucker	5.6 miles	13
Redfield	6.9 miles	12
Kearney	7.2 miles	12
Pastoria	7.5 miles	16

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 Q105085346

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 60836. 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.