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Birdeye, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Coldwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72324. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Valley East quadrangle.

Birdeye within Cross County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Birdeye between 1998 and 2009, burning about 299 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2001Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 March 2009Arson/incendiarism203 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBAY VILLAGE
14 March 2001Debris and open burning38 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 February 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Birdeye: 7 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 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
Bay Village PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Birdseye PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cross County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birdeye in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash flood. 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
February 2019Flash FloodBirdeye-A section of state Highway 163 has been closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Cross 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
Pleasant Hill2.9 miles12
Mersman3.8 miles11
Cherry Valley3.8 miles12
Colton Crossing4.1 miles13
Welford (historical)4.2 miles13
Monterey5.5 miles13
Coldwater5.8 miles13
Turney (historical)6.0 miles13

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 BirdeyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q123407531The 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 76352. 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.