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Wooden Hills, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72601. It stands on Marble Fork. The Survey maps it on the Bergman quadrangle.

Wooden Hills within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Wooden Hills between 1999 and 2019, burning about 727 acres in total. 1 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2012Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2016Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2004Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2003Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wooden Hills: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Manganese, Lead, Zinc. 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
Alfred E. Granger PropertyManganeseOccurrence
Low Gap MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Smithsonite
Ayers CutLeadOccurrenceGalena
BessieLead, ZincPast Producer1900
Bryan & Snyder MineLeadPast Producer
Jackson MineLeadPast Producer
Jones ProspectsZinc, LeadOccurrence1900
Red Fox MineLeadPast Producer
Silver Fox MineLeadPast Producer
Willis MineLead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Boone 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
Hopewell1.7 miles13
Myrtle2.1 miles13
Bergman3.1 miles13
Oregon (historical)3.2 miles13
Keener4.2 miles15
Willis4.8 miles15
Self4.9 miles13
Bear Creek Springs7.1 miles12

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 Q122594831The 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 58909. 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.