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Dalark, Arkansas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71923. The Survey maps it on the Dalark quadrangle.

Dalark within Dallas County

On record in Dalark

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 7 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

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Dalark between 1997 and 2020, burning about 803 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dalark: 7 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalark in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindDalark$175,000A bow echo caused a swath of wind damage. Hundreds of trees were snapped off or uprooted and many utility lines were knocked down. A vacant house in Manning was crushed by a falling tree and the roofs of two mobile homes were damaged. Southeast of Tulip, the roof of a house was damaged. In Carthage, a falling tree knocked some windows out of a house and crushed a pickup truck, and a metal building had part of its roof removed. At the Fairview community north of Sparkman, a house caught fire after an accident with candles, which were being used to light the house after power lines were knocked down. The house burned to the ground. Boys 2 and 3 years old were killed in the fire and their father suffered burns while trying to rescue them. Power was knocked out to the entire county.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindDalark$175,000Dozens of trees were blown down in Dalark, blocking virtually every road in the small town. Several of the trees fell on houses and storage sheds, and one crushed a travel trailer. One mobile home was destroyed by a falling tree and another had its roof blown off.
May 1996Tornado (F3)Dalark$130,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDalark$5,000A few trees were blown down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDalark$3,000Trees were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDalark-Trees were down across Hwy. 7 and all lanes were temporarily blocked.
May 2017Flash FloodDalark-Highway 7 in Dalark had 2.5 feet of water over it. Various roads in Dallas County have 3 to 4 inches over the roads.
September 2013Heavy RainDalark-Rainfall amounts included 5.26 inches at Sparkman and 4.27 inches at Fordyce.
August 2006LightningDalark-Lightning set a tree on fire.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDalark-Few trees blown down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindDalark-Several trees were knocked down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDalark-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Dalark-A weak tornado touched down over northeast Dallas County about 7 miles north-northeast of Dalark. The tornado moved through mostly rural areas and caused extensive tree damage. The tornado moved northeast into Hot Spring County.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindDalark-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDalark-Large tree limbs were blown down.
March 1995HailDalark-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2012HailDalark-no account filed
July 2008HailDalark-no account filed
August 2006HailDalark-no account filed
July 2002HailDalark-no account filed
December 2001Flash FloodDalark-no account filed
August 2001HailDalark-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDalark-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindDalark-no account filed
August 1993HailDalark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Fairview4.4 miles15
Manning5.1 miles8
Jackson (historical)5.9 miles15
Round Hill8.2 miles8
Nix (historical)8.3 miles16
Sparkman8.6 miles15
Willow10.0 miles9
Wave10.5 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122554965The 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 48333. 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.