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Wileys Cove, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wileys Cove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It stands on Trace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle.

Wileys Cove within Searcy County

On record in Wileys Cove

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 within a mile 10 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

64 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Wileys Cove between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,085 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Wileys Cove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
J E FergusonPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy 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
Leslie1.0 miles15
Noahs1.9 miles15
Elberta3.9 miles15
Begley (historical)3.9 miles15
Rumley4.6 miles15
Watts4.7 miles16
Shilo (historical)5.1 miles15
Baker5.4 miles15

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 Q122540339The 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 58890. 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.