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Reader, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It lies in ZIP code area 71726. The Survey maps it on the Reader quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Reader within Nevada County

Population over time

2 figures

Reader fell from 66 to 40 between 2010 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
201066
202040-26 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Reader between 1997 and 2018, burning about 515 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Reader: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 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
Silis Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reader in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2018Flash FloodReader-Highway 53 north of Bluff City was closed due to flooding.
August 1993HailReader-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Bluff City2.8 miles16
Cummings Springs4.2 miles17
Gum Grove5.2 miles16
Foss (historical)5.7 miles16
Lackland (historical)5.9 miles16
Zama (historical)6.7 miles16
Dills Mills7.9 miles16
Morris9.4 miles16

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 ReaderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2220072The 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 78139. 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.