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Prairie Landing, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72166. It stands on La Grue Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Henrico SW quadrangle.

Prairie Landing within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Landing between 1993 and 2017, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugePENIX FIRE
13 August 2006Smoking5.0 acresDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugePOST CANAL
24 February 1997Debris and open burning10 acresDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeWILLIAMS 1
22 December 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeDRAINIE LAKE
31 January 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeFIRE1
29 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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
Jacks Bay Landing1.4 miles16
Weber4.6 miles15
Benzal5.8 miles12
Tichnor6.0 miles12
Sheppard Point7.7 miles15
Medina8.0 miles12
Osotouy (historical)8.8 miles13
La Grue Springs8.9 miles15

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 Q122555711The 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 57163. 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.