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Beirne, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Caddo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71743. The Survey maps it on the Gurdon quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Beirne within Clark County

On record in Beirne

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 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Beirne between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,141 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 24 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
Railroad operations and maintenance59
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural7
Smoking1
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
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Beirne: 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnkClayUnknown
Rickets Trucking Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith & Houston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beirne in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBeirne-A tree was down on U.S. Highway 67 north of the Arkansas Highway 51 West intersection.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBeirne-Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Britt (historical)2.7 miles15
Gurdon3.5 miles16
Sycamore3.9 miles17
Barringer4.6 miles17
Smithton (historical)5.4 miles16
Smithton5.5 miles16
Keyton (historical)5.7 miles16
Whelen Springs5.7 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on BeirneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4881370The 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 76289. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.