Dyer, Arkansas
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in District 12. It lies in ZIP code area 72935. It stands on Morris Branch. The Survey maps it on the Alma quadrangle. 772 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.
Population over time
13 figuresDyer grew from 343 to 772 between 1900 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 343 | |
| 1910 | 433 | +90 (+26%) |
| 1920 | 609 | +176 (+41%) |
| 1930 | 425 | -184 (-30%) |
| 1940 | 513 | +88 (+21%) |
| 1950 | 398 | -115 (-22%) |
| 1960 | 450 | +52 (+13%) |
| 1970 | 486 | +36 (+8%) |
| 1980 | 608 | +122 (+25%) |
| 1990 | 502 | -106 (-17%) |
| 2000 | 585 | +83 (+17%) |
| 2010 | 876 | +291 (+50%) |
| 2020 | 772 | -104 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 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.
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1906 USGS Lavaca quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Lavaca quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
88 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Dyer between 1997 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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 burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2000 | Smoking | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyer in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2023 | Hail | Dyer | $75,000 | Hen egg size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $40,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Dyer | $25,000 | Golfball size hail damaged automobiles and homes. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Dyer | $15,000 | A tornado damaged the roofs of two permanent homes, damaged a barn, and snapped or uprooted trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 100 mph. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of several homes and blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree fell on a home and severely damaged it. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and damaged the facilities at a golf course. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged buildings near Dyer. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dyer | - | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped large tree limbs. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Dyer | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over numerous roads. Schools in Van Buren and Alma had to be closed because roads were impassable. |
| March 1997 | Hail | Dyer | - | Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the late evening of March 29th and very early morning of March 30th. Strong thunderstorm winds caused roof damage to some buildings and downed large tree limbs at Devils Den State Park 6 miles southeast of Strickler. The storms also produced dime size hail at Dyer. |
| March 1999 | Hail | Dyer | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Dyer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Springs | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Alma | 4.6 miles | 22 | |
| Mulberry | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Yoestown | 4.9 miles | 22 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Deans Market | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Graphic | 5.6 miles | 17 |
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 Dyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2054242 | 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 76832. 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.












