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Erbie, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marble Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72648. It stands on Cecil Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Erbie within Newton County

On record in Erbie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Erbie between 1995 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
18 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBuffalo National RiverBISHOP FIRE
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism14 acresBuffalo National RiverBEESTING
5 May 2014Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBOO18126500
3 May 2015Fireworksunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCECIL BLUFF WF
9 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverERBIE LOW WATER BRIDGE WF
8 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUZZARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Erbie: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Lee Roy MineLead, ZincUnknown
Boulder ProspectLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erbie in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2004: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindErbie-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindErbie-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of several buildings and blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2004HailErbie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Plumlee (historical)3.3 miles14
Compton3.8 miles14
Mount Sherman3.8 miles14
The Basin4.1 miles13
Pruitt5.3 miles13
Dogpatch5.5 miles13
Jasper5.8 miles13
Little Buffalo (historical)6.2 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 Q122562870The 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 71565. 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.