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Eldridge Corner, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Garland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72160. The Survey maps it on the De Witt SW quadrangle. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Eldridge Corner within Arkansas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eldridge Corner in 2012, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning1

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
20 June 2012Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldridge Corner in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindEldridge Corner-An 82 mph wind gust was measured west of DeWitt.

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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
Lodge Corner2.7 miles15
Burks3.8 miles14
Hagler4.1 miles15
Olena4.3 miles14
Monica (historical)4.9 miles14
Bayou Meto5.7 miles15
Kittlers6.2 miles14
Thomwall (historical)7.1 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q5354167The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57710. 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.

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.