BlockHickoria, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bennett-Lemmons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72422. The Survey maps it on the McDougal quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Mc Dougal quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hickoria in 1998, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickoria in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2001: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Hail | Hickoria | $250 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hickoria | $10 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tipperary | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| McDougal | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Lower Boydsville | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Walnut Grove | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Boydsville | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Crockett | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Corning | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Knob | 7.6 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 Q122548023 | 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 57912. 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.