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Relfs Bluff, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lone Pine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71667. The Survey maps it on the Relfs Bluff quadrangle. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Relfs Bluff within Lincoln County

On record in Relfs Bluff

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

7 surveys from 12 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

47 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Relfs Bluff between 2001 and 2018, burning about 208 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDRE8183819
6 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Relfs Bluff: 17 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Relfs Bluff in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2013HailRelfs Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Garnett4.6 miles12
Little Garnett4.8 miles12
Cornerville6.0 miles10
Rest (historical)6.2 miles11
Tyro6.9 miles12
Calhoun6.9 miles11
Branchville7.3 miles11
Todd (historical)9.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Relfs BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14681379The 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 78161. 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.