Effa, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Six Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72928. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Branch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Effa within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1887 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Magazine Mountain #2 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Magazine Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Branch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Branch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Effa (historical) between 1997 and 2018, burning about 471 acres in total. 5 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 burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Effa (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Stone Co	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Branch	2.6 miles	19
Leon (historical)	3.3 miles	23
Thessing (historical)	4.1 miles	22
Fealey (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Donald (historical)	4.3 miles	19
Charleston	4.7 miles	22
Dahoma (historical)	6.3 miles	19
Peter Pender	6.4 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63006. 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.