Egbert, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72060. The Survey maps it on the Walker quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Egbert within White County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Walker quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Walker quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Egbert (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 March 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 February 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI4829918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White 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
Dogwood	0.5 miles	13
Hicksville (historical)	1.6 miles	12
Griffithville	2.3 miles	13
Belcher	2.4 miles	12
Walker	3.2 miles	13
Showalters Corner	3.6 miles	12
Conant	4.7 miles	14
Ellen (historical)	4.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 65061. 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.