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Sandy Bend, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Urbana quadrangle.

Sandy Bend within Union 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

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Bend between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,181 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15959013
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Payne1.7 miles16
Gardner2.2 miles16
Urbana2.8 miles16
Strong4.1 miles16
Hillsboro4.9 miles16
New London5.2 miles16
Union5.4 miles16
Victoria5.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78891. 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.