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Hooker, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Melton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71601. The Survey maps it on the Pinebergen quadrangle.

Hooker within Jefferson 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

36 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 2001 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2006Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 hail, 6 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHooker$5,000Trees and power lines were knocked down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHooker-Numerous tree limbs were blown down near the town of Hooker.
August 2024HailHooker-Quarter sized hail fell near the town of Hooker.
August 2024HailHooker-Quarter sized hail fell near the community of Hooker.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHooker-Report from mPING of 3 inch tree limbs broken and power poles broken.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHooker-A tree was blown down onto Highway 425, blocking both lanes of traffic.
March 2018HailHooker-Large hail of around 2 inches in diameter fell near Terry, breaking windshields.
January 2012HailHooker-no account filed
January 2012HailHooker-no account filed
January 2012HailHooker-no account filed
January 2012HailHooker-no account filed
April 2011HailHooker-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHooker-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindHooker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Ladd2.1 miles16
Noble Lake3.9 miles15
Cottondale4.3 miles15
Moscow4.9 miles15
Linwood5.0 miles15
Glenlake5.1 miles16
Pinebergen6.0 miles16
Atkins Lake6.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 50288. 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.