Herma, Arkansas

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.

• 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Calion quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Smackover quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Herma between 1997 and 2019, burning about 365 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Nugulf
• Quinn
• Crain City
• El Dorado
• Old Union
• Perdue City

Every fire recorded in Union County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Herma: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bromine, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Union County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herma in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Union County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57907. 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.