Poyner, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72854. It lies near Owens Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hagarville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poyner within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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.

1889 USGS Ozone quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Ozone quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Ozone quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hagarville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Poyner (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,224 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 40 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HORSEWATER
7 September 1999	Natural	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PETERS BRANCH
24 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GILLIAN SETS
19 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WHITE
18 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GRAVE GAP
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	STRAWBERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Gillian Settlement	2.1 miles	13
Zadock (historical)	3.1 miles	13
Hickory Flat	3.6 miles	13
Garber	3.7 miles	13
Ozone	4.3 miles	13
Strawberry	4.5 miles	13
Mount Vernon	5.2 miles	13
Farris Springs	5.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65170. 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.