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Deer, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Pleasant Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72628. The Survey maps it on the Deer quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,339 feet above sea level.

Deer within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Deer between 1992 and 2019, burning about 241 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDEER #2
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDEER #1
20 July 2012Natural6.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsNELLIE
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsNAIL
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSAWMILL
4 April 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTATLOR RIDGE
2 April 2005Arson/incendiarism4.2 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGREEN HAW
17 April 2014Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDOG BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 15 hail, 13 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindDeer$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew roofs off some houses and knocked down some trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindDeer$10,000Trees were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindDeer$5,000This is a delayed report. Newton County emergency management reported a porch was damaged by thunderstorm winds near Deer.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindDeer$5,000A roof was removed from a porch at a home in Deer by thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindDeer$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindDeer$1,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindDeer-Several buildings sustained roof damage in and around Deer.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindDeer-Power lines were knocked down.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDeer-Several large trees were blown down.
August 1997HailDeer-Hail up to nickel size damaged several roofs.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindDeer-A garage was damaged by fallen trees.
May 2009HailDeer-no account filed
May 2008HailDeer-no account filed
February 2006HailDeer-no account filed
May 2004HailDeer-no account filed
March 2003HailDeer-no account filed
March 2003HailDeer-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindDeer-no account filed
August 2001HailDeer-no account filed
March 2000HailDeer-no account filed
April 1999HailDeer-no account filed
May 1998HailDeer-no account filed
May 1998HailDeer-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDeer-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDeer-no account filed
November 1995HailDeer-no account filed
January 1994HailDeer-no account filed
April 1993HailDeer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Cowell2.4 miles14
Pleasant Hill3.4 miles14
Crossroad3.6 miles13
Nail4.4 miles9
Limestone4.9 miles9
Wayton5.8 miles9
Chancel6.1 miles14
Holt (historical)6.5 miles15

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 DeerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5250682The 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 71358. 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.