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Eagleton, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Acorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. It lies near Rich Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Rich Mountain quadrangle.

Eagleton within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Eagleton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 303 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks3

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
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestFORK
19 September 2011Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestEAGLE GAP
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Natural5.0 acresOuachita National ForestHORSESHOE MOUNTAIN
4 August 2006Natural6.4 acresOuachita National ForestEAGLETON CEMETARY
24 August 2011Natural36 acresOuachita National ForestSHUT IN
24 August 2010Natural7.0 acresOuachita National ForestWEST PITFORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eagleton: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagleton in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 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
October 2007Thunderstorm WindEagleton-A number of trees were blown down or snapped off along Forest Service Road 514, also known as Polk 100.
March 2019HailEagleton-no account filed
July 2011HailEagleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Rich Mountain2.1 miles22
Center Point5.2 miles22
Acorn5.9 miles19
Shady Grove6.1 miles22
Olivers Chapel6.3 miles22
Rocky7.1 miles22
Mena7.2 miles20
Mountain Fork7.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71488. 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.