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Wylie Spur, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72364. The Survey maps it on the West Memphis quadrangle.

Wylie Spur within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wylie Spur in 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 December 2017Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresCache River National Wildlife RefugeAUGUSTA CAMP ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wylie Spur: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. 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
CarterSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Turbyfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weeks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden 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
Ebony0.7 miles12
Gavin1.6 miles18
Cunningham Corner2.3 miles12
Sunset2.8 miles18
Vincent2.9 miles12
Marion3.0 miles18
Julius3.2 miles12
Harvard3.3 miles18

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 Q122549883The 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 58922. 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.