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Pfeiffer, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ashley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72501. It lies near Brewer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Rock quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Pfeiffer within Independence County

On record in Pfeiffer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Pfeiffer between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,074 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Pfeiffer: 45 past producers, 16 unknowns, 10 producers, 7 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Limestone, General, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BatesvillePlatinum, Limestone, DimensionOccurrenceUnknown
Stone Products CorpMarble, DimensionUnknown
Texas Lime Co PlantLimestone, DimensionProducer
Texas Line Co PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
Arkansas Lime CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Batesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sheid QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownLimestone
Hickory ValleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pfeiffer in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPfeiffer$5,000A tree and power line fell and blocked U.S. 167.
August 2023Flash FloodPfeiffer-AR-IN-22 CoCoRaHS Gauge measured 5.55 inches of total rainfall over a 24 hour period. Multiple roadways were flooded in the town of Batesville and within Independence county, including a car that was observed overtaken by flood waters and began to float down the street.
April 2006HailPfeiffer-no account filed
March 2004HailPfeiffer-no account filed
October 2004HailPfeiffer-no account filed
July 2003HailPfeiffer-no account filed
May 1998HailPfeiffer-no account filed
May 1994HailPfeiffer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Sharp2.9 miles20
Gainsboro3.5 miles20
Rogers Addition3.6 miles20
Balch Addition3.7 miles20
Blowing Cave (historical)3.7 miles20
Moorefield3.9 miles20
College Heights Addition4.1 miles20
Wolford Addition4.2 miles20

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 PfeifferAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7179780The 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 58353. 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.

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.