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Coleman, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spring Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71655. The Survey maps it on the Tyro quadrangle. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Coleman within Drew County

On record in Coleman

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

6 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

43 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Coleman between 2001 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2004Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDRE7343926
31 July 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2008Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2009Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDRE7227586

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Coleman: 19 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 Drew County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleman in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindColeman$25,000A tree fell on a mobile home on Pleasant Springs Road.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindColeman$20,000The roof was blown off a house on East Mt. Zion Rd. Trees were also blown down. This is close to the Lincoln an Drew County line.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindColeman$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindColeman-Trees were blown down across Arkansas Highway 83.
April 2011Funnel CloudColeman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Montongo4.4 miles9
Old Union (historical)4.7 miles14
Florence5.5 miles12
Plantersville7.0 miles10
Rose Hill8.3 miles9
Rock Springs8.5 miles10
Brandon9.8 miles9
Bethel10.2 miles10

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 ColemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5142970The 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 56966. 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.