Eightmile, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cow Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. The Survey maps it on the Beedeville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Eightmile within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Beedeville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Eightmile (historical) between 1992 and 2016, burning about 275 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
1 July 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	BLACK
15 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ALLEN
24 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY 145
11 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 November 2004	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	BRECKENRIDGE
10 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	BEEDEVILLE FIRE
1 October 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	NICHOLSON SANCTUARY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Beedeville	1.4 miles	10
Cow Lake (historical)	3.0 miles	10
McFadden	3.2 miles	10
Blackville	3.6 miles	10
Algoa	3.9 miles	10
Stringers Mill	5.1 miles	10
Gourd Neck	5.1 miles	10
Balch	6.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 82831. 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.