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Village Junction, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71753. It stands on Harper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spotville quadrangle.

Village Junction within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Village Junction between 1997 and 2018, burning about 380 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Village Junction: 3 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Village1.0 miles12
Damascus2.0 miles12
Ebenezer3.6 miles12
Spotville4.4 miles12
Calhoun Junction5.2 miles14
Snipe5.2 miles12
Tide Water5.3 miles13
Calhoun5.9 miles13

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 Q122549205The 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 57223. 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.