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Eglantine, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Red River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72153. It stands on Lynn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairfield Bay quadrangle.

Eglantine within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Eglantine between 1997 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Eglantine: 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 Van Buren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eglantine in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 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
December 2015Thunderstorm WindEglantine$20,000A tree fell onto a home in Fairfield Bay.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindEglantine-At Fairfield Bay, on Greers Ferry Lake, approximately 6 boats were overturned and blown onshore via thunderstorm winds.
July 2012HailEglantine-Hail fell in Fairfield Bay.
June 2009HailEglantine-Hail occurred at the Fairfield Bay golf course.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Fairfield Bay1.8 miles16
Palisades3.6 miles16
Chalk (historical)4.1 miles15
Settlement (historical)4.5 miles17
Bloomington (historical)4.6 miles16
Choctaw Pines4.6 miles16
Banner (historical)4.9 miles15
Shirley5.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57001. 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.