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Elberta, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wileys Cove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It lies near Griffin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle.

Elberta within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Elberta between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,084 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning13
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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2002Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Arson/incendiarism56 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Elberta: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone. 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
J E FergusonPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy 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
Campbell2.0 miles15
Oxley2.4 miles15
Begley (historical)3.0 miles15
Leslie3.3 miles15
Noahs3.5 miles15
Wileys Cove3.9 miles15
Shilo (historical)3.9 miles15
Rumley4.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57709. 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.