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Heffington, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Barren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72020. The Survey maps it on the Velvet Ridge quadrangle.

Heffington within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

89 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Heffington between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,470 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
9 September 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJAC3467719
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2014Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJAC3740703
22 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJAC3570999
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Heffington: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
Reeves PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Adelaide (historical)3.3 miles9
Denmark4.4 miles9
Possum Grape5.7 miles12
Grand Glaise5.8 miles12
Coffeeville6.6 miles12
Old Grand Glaise7.8 miles12
Olyphant8.7 miles12
Bengel10.1 miles11

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 Q122561362The 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 57055. 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.