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Nimmo, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Nimmo within White County

On record in Nimmo

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Nimmo between 1998 and 2017, burning about 307 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
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor140 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBALD KNOB
17 April 2006Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 March 2010Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 March 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White 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 Nimmo: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in White 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
Enright2.6 miles13
Wranes (historical)2.7 miles13
Barber (historical)3.1 miles13
Mitchell Corner3.4 miles15
Pryor4.0 miles13
Georgetown4.1 miles15
Andrews5.0 miles13
Ellen (historical)6.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58266. 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.