Era, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71834. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Era within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1952 USGS Doddridge quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Magnolia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

254 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Era (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,687 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 121 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	121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	48
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
9 September 2005	Natural	10 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
8 September 2005	Natural	160 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller 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
Capps City	1.1 miles	16
Ravanna	3.6 miles	13
Kiblah	5.0 miles	16
Hammons	5.2 miles	13
Brightstar	5.7 miles	16
Doddridge	5.8 miles	16
Smithville	6.5 miles	15
Spring Bank (historical)	7.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63085. 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.