Bethel Heights, Arkansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72764. The Survey maps it on the Springdale quadrangle. 3,015 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.
On record in Bethel Heights
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
Beasley Homesteadlisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresBethel Heights grew from 2,372 to 3,015 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,372 | |
| 2020 | 3,015 | +643 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Heights between 2001 and 2017, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | BENTON 232 |
| 24 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 July 2012 | Natural | 22 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | BEN16095542 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bethel Heights: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vogel (historical) | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Silent Grove | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Accident | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Liberty (historical) | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Lowell | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Spring Creek | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Frisco | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cross Hollow | 4.5 miles | 18 |
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 Bethel Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79227 | 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 76320. 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.








