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Hickman, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Canadian Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72315. The Survey maps it on the Chic quadrangle.

Hickman within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hickman between 2007 and 2017, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresChicksaw National Wildlife RefugeHARDY SHED
10 April 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryGREAT RIVER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickman in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindHickman$40,000Roof blown off a four-plex apartment.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Huffman2.0 miles16
Hickman Landing2.4 miles16
Barfield3.3 miles12
Armorel3.8 miles12
Number Nine5.0 miles12
Burton6.7 miles12
Tomato7.0 miles17
Promised Land7.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 50043. 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.