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McNab, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bois d'Arc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71838. It stands on Little Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the McNab quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

McNab within Hempstead County

Population over time

4 figures

McNab fell from 271 to 30 between 1910 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.

YearPeople Change
1910271
200037
201068+31 (+84%)
202030-38 (-56%)

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

99 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of McNab between 1997 and 2020, burning about 976 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Debris and open burning12
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2012Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McNab: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
No NameClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McNab in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
January 1994Thunderstorm WindMcNab$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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
Thrasher (historical)1.0 miles14
Dave2.9 miles15
Fulton3.4 miles17
Sprudel4.7 miles17
Powers5.7 miles15
Sheppard6.3 miles15
Crossroads7.1 miles15
Wafers Crossing7.4 miles15

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 McNabAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1811805The 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 51870. 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.