Jaybird, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72747. The Survey maps it on the Colcord NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jaybird within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Colcord NE quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Jaybird (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30433
8 August 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30558
3 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Natural	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30587
14 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30575

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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
Pactolus (historical)	1.9 miles	19
Eldorado Springs (historical)	2.0 miles	19
Rome City (historical)	2.0 miles	18
Cave (historical)	2.1 miles	18
Maysville	2.4 miles	18
Falling Springs	4.3 miles	19
Ionia	4.5 miles	19
Dorsey (historical)	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75567. 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.