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Parma, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72044. It lies near Nelson Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle.

Parma within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

45 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Parma between 2000 and 2019, burning about 666 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parma in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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
May 2014HailParma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Turkey Creek3.6 miles14
Rushing4.7 miles17
Luber6.0 miles14
Hanover6.5 miles14
West Richwoods7.4 miles14
Fox8.0 miles15
Lydalisk8.4 miles17
East Richwoods9.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57151. 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.