Posey, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wheatley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72392. It stands on Coon Tail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheatley quadrangle.

Posey within St. Francis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1940 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wheatley quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Posey between 1997 and 2018, burning about 310 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
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
13 September 1997	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2007	Smoking	210 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 February 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis 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
Wheatley	3.0 miles	15
Blossom	4.1 miles	15
Goodwin	5.2 miles	15
Four Gums	6.8 miles	12
Slonikers Mill	11.2 miles	12
Palestine	11.4 miles	14
Wadell (historical)	12.4 miles	12
Hawkins	12.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 83253. 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.