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Saint James, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Cave Point. The Survey maps it on the Marcella quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Saint James within Stone County

On record in Saint James

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

133 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Saint James between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,192 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 70 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/incendiarism70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning27
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Saint James: 10 past producers, 8 producers, 7 unknowns, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canard-CajunClay, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
E.B.MathesonIronProducer
Mcbride MinesMarble, Dimension, FlagstoneProducer
Meyersville Spur Limestone PropertyAluminumPast ProducerSurface
Rangaire Love Hollow MineCalciumProducer
Williamson PropertyLimestone, High CalciumUnknownBedded limestone
Meyersville SpurStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stone Produducts Corp.QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownBedded limestone - Kimmswick formation
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone 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
Pleasant Grove1.6 miles15
Marcella3.9 miles15
Chalybeate Springs4.5 miles15
Kahoka (historical)5.0 miles15
Bluetip (historical)5.8 miles15
Bothersome (historical)6.3 miles15
Melrose7.5 miles17
Herpel7.5 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on Saint JamesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15051906The 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 58570. 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.