Smyrna, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72843. It lies near Graveyard Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Smyrna quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Smyrna within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 22 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.

1879 USGS Washington quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Marshall #3 quadrangle1:62500
1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1940 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Smyrna NW quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Smyrna between 1993 and 2020, burning about 742 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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	22
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	NORTH FORK
2 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	VICTOR
16 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	REPEAT
5 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KNOB HOLLOW
26 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WINDMILL
5 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FIT
3 June 2012	Natural	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MAC
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	VICTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Smyrna: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pope 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
Nogo	2.3 miles	22
Raspberry	2.6 miles	22
Gabriel (historical)	3.4 miles	21
Victor	4.4 miles	15
Northwood (historical)	4.4 miles	21
Solo	5.0 miles	21
Ella (historical)	6.6 miles	22
Tilly	6.6 miles	22

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 Smyrna	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7546716	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 73630. 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.