Deerfield, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mississippi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72379. The Survey maps it on the Laconia quadrangle.

Deerfield within Desha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1930 USGS Mellwood quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Mellwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Mellwood quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Mellwood quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Mellwood quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Laconia quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield between 2007 and 2017, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	4451
11 October 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	26 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha 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
Lorays	1.7 miles	16
Knowlton	1.8 miles	16
Snow Lake	2.7 miles	15
Laconia	2.8 miles	16
Henrico (historical)	5.2 miles	15
Stimson	6.1 miles	15
Mozart	8.3 miles	15
White River	14.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76775. 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.