Promised Land, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71646. The Survey maps it on the Mist quadrangle.

Promised Land within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1935 USGS Mist quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mist quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Mist quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Promised Land between 2001 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	15
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Promised Land: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
	Ashley Cnty Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ashley 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
Wallace	2.3 miles	15
Mist	2.6 miles	13
Martinville	3.8 miles	10
Phelan (historical)	4.2 miles	13
Berea	4.4 miles	13
Hamburg	4.9 miles	10
Riley	5.7 miles	13
Snyder	6.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62360. 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.