Hammons, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 75556. The Survey maps it on the Ravanna quadrangle.

Hammons within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1907 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1910 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Ravanna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Hammons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,224 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 118 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
Arson/incendiarism	118
Debris and open burning	101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CASS 21:36
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	MIL15019195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller 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
Ravanna	2.1 miles	13
Brightstar	3.1 miles	16
Era (historical)	5.2 miles	16
Capps City	6.2 miles	16
Doddridge	7.1 miles	16
Black Diamond	7.5 miles	15
Kiblah	8.3 miles	16
Spring Bank (historical)	9.3 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122553150

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 57873. 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.