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Durham, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Durham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72727. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Durham quadrangle.

Durham within Washington County

On record in Durham

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

9 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Durham between 1998 and 2017, burning about 192 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2009Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2018HailDurham$20,000no account filed
July 2018HailDurham$15,000no account filed
November 2022Thunderstorm WindDurham$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power poles.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindDurham$100Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindDurham-Large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindDurham-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew several trees down.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hicks3.7 miles15
Sulphur City3.9 miles15
Elkins3.9 miles18
Mount Olive3.9 miles14
Carter (historical)4.1 miles15
Arnett4.9 miles15
McGuire (historical)5.5 miles18
Black Oak5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57688. 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.