Hunter, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72074. The Survey maps it on the Hunter West quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHunter fell from 152 to 103 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 152 | |
| 2010 | 105 | -47 (-31%) |
| 2020 | 103 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1971 USGS Hunter West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hunter between 2003 and 2008, burning about 256 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2007 | Smoking | 210 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Natural | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | THREE FORKS |
| 8 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | HWY 306 FIRE |
| 3 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 January 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.3 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | HWY 306 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | $15,000 | Trees were blown down, with some of the trees falling on power lines. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and blew some shingles off the roof of a house in Hunter. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Hunter | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morelock (historical) | 0.6 miles | 12 | |
| Casey | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Quinlan (historical) | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hillemann | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| McGregor | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Four Forks | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bulltown | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Becton | 6.5 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Hunter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1934318 | 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 57960. 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.






