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Briarcliff, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72653. It stands on Shoal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Home East quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Briarcliff within Baxter County

Population over time

2 figures

Briarcliff grew from 236 to 236 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
2010236
20202360 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Briarcliff between 1997 and 2020, burning about 652 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burning42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Briarcliff: 3 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Lead, Mercury, Zinc. 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
MeerscheidtLead, Mercury, ZincProspect
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Baxter County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Briarcliff in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBriarcliff1 hurtOne person suffered minor injuries from flying glass when thunderstorm winds blew in the window of a home.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBriarcliff-Numerous trees were blown down and numerous roofs damaged in the community of Briarcliff.
July 2018HailBriarcliff-no account filed
April 2016HailBriarcliff-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindBriarcliff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baxter 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
Sycamore Heights1.3 miles18
Salesville2.3 miles17
Sycamore Spring2.6 miles18
Spencer (historical)2.6 miles18
Arkana3.0 miles17
Norfork Village3.8 miles17
Timber Lake Manor4.0 miles18
Diamond Bay4.2 miles18

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 BriarcliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q947390The 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 69346. 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.