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.
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
Mo-Ark Baptist Academylisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresBlue 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30 | |
| 2020 | 46 | +16 (+53%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 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.
- 1904 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Blue Eye quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 August 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177449-10404-07232018-1717 |
| 12 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 145 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176963-10404-05122018-1805 |
| 2 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178821-10404-04022019-2300 |
| 2 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178820-10404-04022019-1325 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Hail | Blue Eye | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Eye | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Eye | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down onto Highway 21 between Blue Eye and Oak Grove. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Blue Eye | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Blue Eye | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakgrove | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Raum (historical) | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Enon (historical) | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Yocum | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Maple | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Farewell | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| High | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Indian Creek (historical) | 7.6 miles | 12 |
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 Eye | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619072 | 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 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.









