Birdtown, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bird Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72157. It stands on Brindley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle.

Birdtown within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1892 USGS Morrillton quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Morrillton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1894 USGS Morrilton quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Conway quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

95 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Birdtown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 636 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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
Arson/incendiarism	35
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birdtown in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 6 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Tornado (EF2)	Birdtown	2 killed, 6 hurt, $5,000,000	Fifteen homes, three chicken houses, kennels, at least six vehicles, and at least six outbuildings were destroyed. There was major damage to nine houses, at least four chicken houses, five outbuildings, vehicles, and farm equipment. Minor damage occurred to multiple houses and roofs, vehicles, a cemetery, community building, ball field, and multiple outbuildings and barns. A man and his teen-aged son were killed when their mobile home was destroyed on M&M Rd. The tornado exited Conway County, east of Center Ridge, and entered Van Buren County, west-southwest of Damascus.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	$300,000	Several residences were damaged with most damage occurring to roofs. A sawmill was destroyed. A church had minor damage. Two barns were destroyed.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blow down, along with damage to a mobile home.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto Arkansas 9, resulting in an auto accident.
April 2006	Hail	Birdtown	-	A number of vehicles and roofs were damaged by the large hail.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	-	A tree was blown onto a house, with several trees down on Highway 9 and on a few county roads.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	-	Several trees were knocked down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	-	Thunderstorm winds overturned a truck.
April 2006	Hail	Birdtown	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Birdtown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Bethlehem	1.9 miles	16
Arthur	1.9 miles	17
Middleton	2.6 miles	17
Cypress Valley	2.7 miles	17
Grandview	3.3 miles	16
Springfield	3.8 miles	16
Catholic Point	3.9 miles	16
Lick Mountain	3.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57382. 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.

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.