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Stony Point, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72070. The Survey maps it on the Gleason quadrangle.

Stony Point within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Stony Point between 1997 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. None 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
7 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stony Point: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Toadsuck Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Perry 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
Nogal2.0 miles17
Toad Suck2.4 miles17
New Dixie2.4 miles17
Dixie (historical)3.3 miles17
Bunker Hill3.4 miles17
Bigelow5.4 miles17
Houston5.6 miles17
Fourche5.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58694. 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.