Dumas, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71639. The Survey maps it on the Dumas quadrangle. 4,001 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.
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On record in Dumas
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 5 records
McKennon-Shea Houselisted 1993
Merchants & Farmers Banklisted 1982
Dr. J. D. Watts Houselisted 1994- Dante Houselisted 2020
- Dumas Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresDumas fell from 4,706 to 4,001 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,706 | |
| 2020 | 4,001 | -705 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Red Fork quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dumas in 1998, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.6 acres | Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge | OAKWOOD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dumas in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 28 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF3) | Dumas | 28 hurt, $45,000,000 | The tornado moved out of Lincoln County and into Desha County about 6 miles southwest of Dumas. The tornado continued to track northeastward and moved across the southeast portion of the city of Dumas and produced significant damage. In Dumas, 25 businesses were destroyed, along with 19 homes. More than 65 additional homes sustained minor to moderate damage. Six mobile homes were destroyed, along with an athletic park. A community building sustained major damage, as well as a 20-unit assisted living center. An electrical substation was destroyed, leaving the area without power for several days. Numerous trees and power lines were also blown down. Farther to the northeast, in the community of Back Gate, 11 mobile homes were destroyed and 12 sustained minor damage. One house was destroyed, along with three that were damaged. The tornado eventually dissipated 4 miles northeast of Pendleton. Altogether, 28 people in the county were injured. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | $100,000 | Widespread flash flooding across the city was reported with water in several homes and numerous street flooded. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | $100,000 | The Dumas police chief reported all streets in Dumas have standing water on them. Some buildings are still inundated. People keep driving around barricaded roads and getting stuck. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged some roofs and knocked down several trees. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down, and the steeple was blown off a church. |
| October 2010 | Lightning | Dumas | $15,000 | Lightning knocked out 28 phones at the Delta Memorial Hospital in Dumas. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $5,000 | Some large tree limbs were blown down. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Trees were blown down in the vicinity of Dumas. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Trees were down on Belmont St. near the community center. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Widespread flash flooding was noted over northern portions of Desha County. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | A tree was blown down in Dumas. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Dumas | - | Arkansas DOT reported Highway 159 from MM 0.38 to MM 2.5 was blocked due to high water. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Water was covering roadways in Dumas. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Dumas | - | Rainfall amounts included 4.42 inches at Rohwer, 3.83 inches at Kelso, 3.76 inches at Lock #2 on the Arkansas River, and 3.41 inches at Montgomery Point. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Dumas | - | A brief, landspout-type tornado occurred in a soybean field. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | The covered entryway was blown off the front of a church on North College Street. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | A pickup truck pulling a camper trailer was overturned. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house and knocked out some windows at a shopping center. |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Dumas. Numerous streets were under water for several hours. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and damaged the roofs of a few buildings. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs and destroyed a shed. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchellville | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Pickens | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Reedville | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Oaklawn | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Omega | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Back Gate | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Parma (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Yukon | 6.2 miles | 14 |
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 Dumas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79316 | 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 48697. 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.





