Heth, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Heth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72346. It stands on Dry Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Chatfield quadrangle. It stands 203 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Edmondson quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Edmondson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Edmondson SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Chatfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Heth between 2009 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 January 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 January 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 January 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heth in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cicalla | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Jonquil | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Lucerne | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Shell Lake | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Whitmore | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| New Shady Grove | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Blackfish | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Tarsus | 4.7 miles | 12 |
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 Heth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5747920 | The 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 83168. 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.
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.






