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Nimrod, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in New Tennessee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72126. It stands on Wallace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nimrod quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Nimrod within Perry County

On record in Nimrod

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Nimrod between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,754 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1992Natural5.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOuachita National ForestGARRETT
3 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism17 acresOuachita National ForestPOWER LINE
23 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning705 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionNIMROD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Nimrod: 1 past producer. 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
T & T PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nimrod in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1993HailNimrod$50,000Hail up to golfball-size damaged a number of roofs.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindNimrod$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNimrod-Trees were blown down around Nimrod.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNimrod-A large tree was blown down along State Highway 60.
March 2003HailNimrod-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNimrod-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Deberrie3.5 miles13
Fourche Junction4.3 miles12
Casa4.6 miles18
West Aplin5.0 miles14
Aplin5.3 miles14
Hollis6.1 miles15
Homewood7.2 miles18
Rose Creek8.6 miles18

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 NimrodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191763The 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 72870. 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.