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Evening Shade, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Russell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hon quadrangle.

Evening Shade within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Evening Shade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,437 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresOuachita National ForestEAST WILDERNESS
29 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evening Shade in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 1 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
May 2010Flash FloodEvening Shade$5,000City streets were flooded in Waldron. Parts of Arkansas Highway 80 were flooded as well.
January 2025Flash FloodEvening Shade-Portions of Arkansas Highway 80 were closed due to water over the roadway.
January 2025Flash FloodEvening Shade-Arkansas Highway 80 was closed in both directions due to high water over the highway.
April 2022HailEvening Shade-Pea to nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of Hwy. 71 and Packsaddle Rd.
March 2008Flash FloodEvening Shade-Arkansas Highway 80 was closed just west of Waldron.
October 2007Flash FloodEvening Shade-Flooding was reported along Johnny Tate Rd.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Hon2.4 miles31
Anderson2.7 miles31
Pleasant Hill3.1 miles31
Waldron4.3 miles31
Bryan4.8 miles31
Winfield5.0 miles31
Elm Park5.1 miles22
Kings Creek (historical)5.6 miles22

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 Evening ShadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122750The 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 66284. 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.