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Fairfield Bay, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Indian Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72088. It stands on Dave Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairfield Bay quadrangle. 2,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Fairfield Bay within Van Buren County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairfield Bay fell from 2,338 to 2,108 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,338
20202,108-230 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield Bay between 1997 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning12
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Fairfield Bay: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pryor MtnSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield Bay in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 3 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
February 1996HailFairfield Bay-no account filed
January 1994HailFairfield Bay-no account filed
April 1993HailFairfield Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Eglantine1.8 miles16
Chalk (historical)4.0 miles15
Settlement (historical)4.0 miles17
Poe (historical)4.7 miles17
Shirley4.8 miles17
Palisades5.3 miles16
Banner (historical)6.0 miles15
Choctaw Pines6.2 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on Fairfield BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79643The 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 57738. 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.