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Jumbo, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Athens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72556. It stands on Knob Creek. The Survey maps it on the Melbourne quadrangle.

Jumbo within Izard County

On record in Jumbo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

188 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Jumbo between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,739 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism80
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jumbo in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindJumbo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Knob Creek1.7 miles10
Melbourne3.8 miles10
Belview3.8 miles10
Lone Star3.9 miles10
Newburg4.1 miles10
Boswell4.3 miles19
Vest (historical)4.6 miles19
Band Mill5.1 miles10

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 JumboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85772484The 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 50759. 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.