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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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Dumas within Desha County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dumas 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,706
20204,001-705 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 1998

Regional 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 ceremony1

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
1 January 1998Recreation and ceremony5.6 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOAKWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this place

39 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2007Tornado (EF3)Dumas28 hurt, $45,000,000The 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 2021Flash FloodDumas$100,000Widespread flash flooding across the city was reported with water in several homes and numerous street flooded.
June 2021Flash FloodDumas$100,000The 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 1994Thunderstorm WindDumas$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged some roofs and knocked down several trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDumas$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down, and the steeple was blown off a church.
October 2010LightningDumas$15,000Lightning knocked out 28 phones at the Delta Memorial Hospital in Dumas.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDumas$5,000Some large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindDumas-Trees were blown down in the vicinity of Dumas.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDumas-Trees were down on Belmont St. near the community center.
June 2021Flash FloodDumas-Widespread flash flooding was noted over northern portions of Desha County.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindDumas-A tree was blown down in Dumas.
February 2018FloodDumas-Arkansas DOT reported Highway 159 from MM 0.38 to MM 2.5 was blocked due to high water.
August 2017Flash FloodDumas-Water was covering roadways in Dumas.
September 2013Heavy RainDumas-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 2011Tornado (EF0)Dumas-A brief, landspout-type tornado occurred in a soybean field.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindDumas-The covered entryway was blown off the front of a church on North College Street.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindDumas-A pickup truck pulling a camper trailer was overturned.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDumas-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house and knocked out some windows at a shopping center.
December 2001Flash FloodDumas-Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Dumas. Numerous streets were under water for several hours.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDumas-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDumas-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and damaged the roofs of a few buildings.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindDumas-Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs and destroyed a shed.
September 2011HailDumas-no account filed
June 2009HailDumas-no account filed
April 2006HailDumas-no account filed
April 2006HailDumas-no account filed
April 2006HailDumas-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
October 2001Flash FloodDumas-no account filed
April 2000Flash FloodDumas-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
February 1998HailDumas-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindDumas-no account filed
March 1996HailDumas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Mitchellville1.3 miles14
Pickens2.9 miles14
Reedville3.3 miles13
Oaklawn3.6 miles14
Omega4.6 miles14
Back Gate6.1 miles14
Parma (historical)6.1 miles13
Yukon6.2 miles14

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 DumasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79316The 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.