Fender, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wiley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. The Survey maps it on the Manson quadrangle.

Fender within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1932 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Manson quadrangle1:24000
1968 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fender between 1999 and 2010, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 2005	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 October 2004	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fender: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Iron	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fender in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2004: 1 hail, 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
August 2003	Hail	Fender	$7,500	no account filed
October 2004	Tornado (F0)	Fender	$5,000	The tornado moved into Randolph county from Lawrence county and continued to move northeast and eventually into northwest Greene county. The tornado continued to skip along the path. Some trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elnora	3.6 miles	12
Lesterville	3.6 miles	12
Manson	3.8 miles	12
Sharum	4.0 miles	14
Shannon	4.0 miles	12
O'Kean	4.3 miles	14
Skaggs	4.4 miles	12
Hoover Landing	5.0 miles	12

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 Fender	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326184	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 76917. 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.