Shonyo, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hector Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72442. The Survey maps it on the Dell quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shonyo within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1941 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Dell quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Shonyo (historical) between 1999 and 2007, burning about 4 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
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	LEVEE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi 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
Wilson Junction	0.7 miles	11
Turner	1.0 miles	11
Roseland	1.4 miles	11
Dell	1.8 miles	11
Lowden	2.4 miles	11
Pettyville	2.4 miles	11
Little River	3.1 miles	11
Big Lake	3.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70094. 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.