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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.

Dyer within Crawford County

Population over time

13 figures

Dyer 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.

YearPeople Change
1900343
1910433+90 (+26%)
1920609+176 (+41%)
1930425-184 (-30%)
1940513+88 (+21%)
1950398-115 (-22%)
1960450+52 (+13%)
1970486+36 (+8%)
1980608+122 (+25%)
1990502-106 (-17%)
2000585+83 (+17%)
2010876+291 (+50%)
2020772-104 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

88 since 1997

Regional 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smoking30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023HailDyer$75,000Hen egg size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDyer$40,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house.
April 2008HailDyer$25,000Golfball size hail damaged automobiles and homes.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Dyer$15,000A 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDyer$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of several homes and blew down numerous large tree limbs.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDyer$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree fell on a home and severely damaged it.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindDyer$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and damaged the facilities at a golf course.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindDyer$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged buildings near Dyer.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDyer$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDyer-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped large tree limbs.
April 2008Flash FloodDyer-Heavy rain caused water to flow over numerous roads. Schools in Van Buren and Alma had to be closed because roads were impassable.
March 1997HailDyer-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 1999HailDyer-no account filed
October 1993HailDyer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Dean Springs4.3 miles17
Alma4.6 miles22
Mulberry4.6 miles16
Yoestown4.9 miles22
Pleasant Hill5.1 miles16
Belmont (historical)5.1 miles17
Deans Market5.2 miles17
Graphic5.6 miles17

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 DyerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054242The 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.