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Evening Shade, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Piney Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72532. It stands on Town Branch. The Survey maps it on the Evening Shade quadrangle. 420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Evening Shade within Sharp County

On record in Evening Shade

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Evening Shade fell from 432 to 420 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
2010432
2020420-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Evening Shade between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,329 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 29 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Evening Shade: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Iron Oxide Pigments. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tommie Marlin DepositIron Oxide PigmentsUnknown
Reichartz LandStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evening Shade in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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
March 2022Tornado (EF0)Evening Shade$80,000This tornado started in central Izard county, just southeast of Melbourne, and tracked northeast 9.86 miles in Izard county and 1.48 miles in Sharp county. The tornado continued into into western Sharp county and dissipated northwest of Evening Shade. There was mostly tree damage. Several homes in and around Sage had roof damage, with a few barns and sheds heavily damaged. The worst damage was 0.5 mile east of Sage, with numerous trees snapped and a horse barn destroyed. Farther northeast, a mobile home was rolled, and a person was injured. A modular home was ripped apart about 4.0 miles west-northwest of Evening Shade. The occupants went to a nearby metal storage container for shelter, and it was rolled. There were four injuries reported here, including one serious injury.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade$20,000Photos showed extensive mostly roof damage to a home, with trees on the property downed or snapped.
July 2010Flash FloodEvening Shade$10,000Creeks overflowed, washing out gravel on county roads. Arkansas Highway 58 was closed as water was up to car bumpers.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade$5,000Trees were blown down in the Evening Shade area.
July 2010Flash FloodEvening Shade$5,000Farm fields were flooded.
May 2025Flash FloodEvening Shade-Low water bridge that connects Silver Springs Rd to Powells Chapel Rd was flooded and portions of Silver Springs Rd was washed out.
February 2023Flash FloodEvening Shade-Numerous roads across Sharp County were reported underwater and impassable.
March 2023Heavy RainEvening Shade-The COOP observer reported 2.43 inches of rain.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-Trained storm spotter reported a 62 mph wind gust and trees and power lines down at the junction of Hwy. 167 and Bear Valley Rd. about 5 miles north of Evening Shade.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-Numerous downed trees in Sharp County caused widespread power outages.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-A large tree was blown over near the Evening Shade steam engine.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-Power lines were blown down in Evening Shade and was relayed by the Lawrence County EM.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-Several trees were down around evening shade.
November 2011Heavy RainEvening Shade-The Evening Shade reporting station recorded the wettest November ever. Rainfall of 11.78 inches broke the record of 10.50 inches set in 1996.
September 2006Tornado (F1)Evening Shade-A weak tornado moved from eastern Izard County into western Sharp County. The tornado tracked from 5.8 miles north-northwest of Evening Shade to 5 miles south-southeast of Ash Flat. The tornado damaged several homes, with mostly roof damage noted. A mobile home and recreational vehicle were overturned, and another mobile home was partially destroyed. The tornado also snapped or uprooted dozens of trees before dissipating.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-A large tree was blown down onto U.S. Highway 167.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-Some trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1993HailEvening Shade-Hail up to golf ball-size fell for five minutes.
May 2021HailEvening Shade-no account filed
April 2016HailEvening Shade-no account filed
April 2007HailEvening Shade-no account filed
August 2003HailEvening Shade-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEvening Shade-no account filed
April 1998HailEvening Shade-no account filed
July 1998HailEvening Shade-no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodEvening Shade-no account filed
March 1997HailEvening Shade-no account filed
July 1996HailEvening Shade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Sidney5.2 miles8
Amateur (historical)5.8 miles8
Maxville6.0 miles19
Balboa (historical)6.9 miles8
Poughkeepsie7.4 miles8
Center7.9 miles9
Kings Mills (historical)9.3 miles9
Bridgeport (historical)9.4 miles8

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 Q1989060The 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 78954. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.