Thorney, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72727. The Survey maps it on the Durham quadrangle.

Thorney within Madison County

On record in Thorney

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Enterprise Schoollisted 1992

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1943 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1946 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Thorney between 1998 and 2016, burning about 202 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Wesley	2.3 miles	14
Drakes Creek	4.2 miles	12
Thompson	5.1 miles	15
Georgetown	5.4 miles	15
Cross Roads	5.7 miles	14
Asher	5.7 miles	15
Cannon Creek	6.3 miles	15
Japton	7.2 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122555369

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58743. 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.