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Sweet Home, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fourche Lafave Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72070. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perryville quadrangle.

Sweet Home within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

107 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Home between 1998 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Home: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Clay, 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
Copperas Gap Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Harris ProspectManganeseProducer
Vaught ProspectManganeseProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Moab (historical)1.1 miles17
Perry2.6 miles18
Perryville2.6 miles18
Copperas Gap (historical)3.2 miles17
Houston3.5 miles17
Antioch4.4 miles15
Oak Grove4.5 miles16
Pleasant Valley5.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58721. 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.