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Blue Eye, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72660. The Survey maps it on the Blue Eye quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Blue Eye within Carroll County

On record in Blue Eye

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

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Eye grew from 30 to 46 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.

YearPeople Change
201030
202046+16 (+53%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Blue Eye between 1992 and 2020, burning about 785 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
8 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177449-10404-07232018-1717
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined145 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176963-10404-05122018-1805
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178821-10404-04022019-2300
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178820-10404-04022019-1325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Eye in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 hail, 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 2017HailBlue Eye$10,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBlue Eye-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down onto Highway 21 between Blue Eye and Oak Grove.
April 2023HailBlue Eye-no account filed
August 2001HailBlue Eye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Oakgrove3.5 miles13
Raum (historical)3.8 miles12
Enon (historical)5.2 miles12
Yocum5.5 miles13
Maple6.8 miles13
Farewell7.4 miles12
High7.6 miles12
Indian Creek (historical)7.6 miles12

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 Blue EyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2619072The 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 76381. 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.