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Eureka Garden, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72117. The Survey maps it on the McAlmont quadrangle.

Eureka Garden within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Garden between 2001 and 2017, burning about 104 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eureka Garden: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay. 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
Little Rock PlantAluminum, ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
Booker0.7 miles21
McAlmont0.8 miles21
Rixey1.5 miles21
Lansbrook1.5 miles21
Fairman2.0 miles21
Valentine2.0 miles21
Pecan Grove2.1 miles21
Silver Creek2.2 miles21

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 Q122564548The 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 68224. 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.