Wrights Corner, Arkansas

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 1 record

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

• Jim Wright Farmstead Historic Districtlisted 1991 · 0.2 miles away

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.

• 1935 USGS Bald Knob quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Bald Knob quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Bald Knob quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Wrights Corner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,704 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 26 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Twentythree
• Bliss (historical)
• Velvet Ridge
• Bald Knob
• Bare Stone
• Clear Water (historical)

Every fire recorded in White County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wrights Corner: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Every working recorded in White County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57238. 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.