Jeffersonville, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72360. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Grange quadrangle.

Jeffersonville within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1939 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Jeffersonville between 1993 and 2013, burning about 152 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TAYLOR
13 June 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR CREEK POWERLINE
13 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SIMMONS
24 March 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CABIN ROAD
24 March 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WEST FIRE
19 March 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KEISLING
18 March 1999	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TWO STORY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jeffersonville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Haleside	1.2 miles	16
Greer Place	2.2 miles	17
Oakwood	3.8 miles	16
Scott Valley	4.8 miles	12
La Grange	5.4 miles	16
Phillips Bayou	5.4 miles	16
Marianna	5.6 miles	15
Beck	6.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57985. 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.