Dearman, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hector Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72315. The Survey maps it on the Dell quadrangle.

Dearman within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1941 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Dell quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dearman in 1999, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dearman in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dearman	$30,000	The side of a farm shop building was blown down.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dearman	-	Power lines were knocked down at the intersection of Highway 18 and Highway 312 between Dell and Gosnell.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Cole Ridge	2.1 miles	9
Dell	2.1 miles	11
Half Moon	2.7 miles	11
Wilson Junction	3.3 miles	11
Turner	3.7 miles	11
Shonyo (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Hightower	4.0 miles	11
Stark City	4.7 miles	11

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 Q122541252

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 57631. 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.

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.