Heafer, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fogleman Township. It stands on Deer Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Heafer quadrangle.

Heafer within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Heafer quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Heafer between 2015 and 2017, burning about 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	ARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE
18 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 October 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden 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
Poindexter	4.1 miles	11
Turrell	4.4 miles	10
Gilmore	4.5 miles	10
Booker	4.9 miles	10
Engledale (historical)	5.3 miles	10
Galilee	5.4 miles	11
Three Forks	5.9 miles	11
Stacy	6.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 49975. 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.