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Wolquarry, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Guion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72540. It lies near Campbell Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Guion quadrangle.

Wolquarry within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

159 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Wolquarry between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,977 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 91 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
Arson/incendiarism91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Wolquarry: 27 past producers, 10 unknowns, 7 producers, 5 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Arkansas Limestone Co.Limestone, Dimension, Aluminum, StoneUnknownBedded high calcium limestone
Canard-CajunClay, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
E.B.MathesonIronProducer
Guion Mine & PlantSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMassive bedded St. Peter Sandstone
Rangaire Love Hollow MineCalciumProducer
Stone Produducts Corp.QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownBedded limestone - Kimmswick formation
Williamson PropertyLimestone, High CalciumUnknownBedded limestone
Lafferty Creek Manganese LimestoneManganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect
Meyersville SpurStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Meyersville Spur Limestone PropertyAluminumPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Izard 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
Myersville2.0 miles14
Guion2.5 miles14
Crocker2.7 miles19
Penters Bluff (historical)3.8 miles18
Lafferty4.6 miles19
Nasco6.1 miles14
Gid6.3 miles19
Lunenburg7.2 miles10

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 Q122568002The 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 58906. 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.