Young Gravelly, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gravelly Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72838. It stands on Cudd Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gravelly quadrangle.

Young Gravelly within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gravelly quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Gravelly quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Young Gravelly between 1996 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gravelly	2.7 miles	16
Bluffton	3.1 miles	16
Waltreak	5.3 miles	16
Fourche Valley	6.5 miles	16
Pleasant Hill	6.6 miles	16
Chalybeate Springs	6.7 miles	16
Briggsville	8.8 miles	13
Shark	9.4 miles	16

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 Q122571678

The 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 74227. 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.