Taylorville, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McCrory Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. It stands on Old Channel Bayou De View. The Survey maps it on the McCrory quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Taylorville within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Mc Crory quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Taylorville (historical) between 1993 and 2017, burning about 232 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 1999	Smoking	29 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	COLE
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Smoking	8.9 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	STUCKEY
5 March 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 February 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	COLE
25 February 2017	Arson/incendiarism	54 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	WILLIAMS TRACT
1 February 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	FAKES CHAPEL RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Taylorville (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodruff 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
Pumpkin Bend	1.9 miles	10
Sturdevant (historical)	3.3 miles	10
Morton	3.9 miles	10
McCrory	4.4 miles	10
Goodrich	5.5 miles	10
Riverside	5.5 miles	10
Simmons (historical)	5.8 miles	10
DeView	5.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 84610. 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.