Preston Ferry, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Keaton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72026. It sits by Preston Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Aberdeen quadrangle.

Preston Ferry within Arkansas 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.

1935 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Preston Ferry between 1998 and 2019, burning about 307 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
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	COOKS ROAD
13 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	PINE BARK WILDFIRE
27 February 2014	Debris and open burning	135 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	MON1587631
1 February 2003	Smoking	65 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Preston Ferry: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Casscoe	1.3 miles	16
Plainview	3.3 miles	13
Mount Adams	4.1 miles	13
Lookout	4.3 miles	15
LaGrue	5.8 miles	13
Crocketts Bluff	7.7 miles	17
Immanuel	9.2 miles	13
Stinking Bay	10.2 miles	17

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 Q122567768

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 58427. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.