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Hooker, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. It stands on Scatter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lafe quadrangle.

Hooker within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 1997 and 2010, burning about 219 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism4

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
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning100 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJERUSALEM COMPLEX
17 May 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 March 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 March 2010Debris and open burning22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hooker: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bradburn PropertyClayOccurrence
Sheppard LinkeClayUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Hooker$30,000Tornado reported near Knob, Arkansas with damage to a home on Greene Road 402.
July 1995HailHooker$100no account filed
March 2025HailHooker-Golf ball sized hail south of HWY 90, along HWY 141, east of Knobel.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Lafe1.6 miles14
Stonewall1.7 miles14
Hillside (historical)2.9 miles14
Gainesville4.2 miles14
Paris (historical)5.0 miles15
Beech Grove5.8 miles14
Camp Ground7.0 miles15
Oak Grove Heights7.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77213. 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.