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Sellers Store, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lower North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72542. The Survey maps it on the Hardy quadrangle.

Sellers Store within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

92 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Sellers Store between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,373 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2012Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 May 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 May 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2001Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp 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 Sellers Store: 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 Sharp County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sellers Store in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Sellers Store-The Ravenden Springs Tornado began near Acres Road just south of|Bakers Cemetery Road, but north of Ozark Acres. The tornado|damaged a small metal outbuilding on the west side of Acres Road,|twisting the structure at a 45 degree angle from its footing,|before crossing Acres Road and rolling a single wide trailer|approximately two times. Several trees surrounding these|buildings were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued|eastward through a forested area, downing numerous trees,|parallel and just south of Bakers Cemetery Road. The tornado|crossed Wynnewood Farm Road before crossing Martin's Creek Road|at Powell Hollow Road. The tornado traveled along Powell Hollow|Road (also County Road 83), damaging several structures and|downing several more trees. This tornado then crossed Bradford|Cemetery Road, entering another heavily forested area exiting |Sharp County and entering Randolph County.
August 2019HailSellers Store-Quarter size hail fell just northeast of Hardy. The time was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Ozark Acres3.5 miles8
Baker4.2 miles8
Hardy4.2 miles8
Canton (historical)4.7 miles8
Wenstead (historical)4.9 miles8
Armstrong5.4 miles8
Herrick (historical)5.6 miles8
Cherokee Village6.4 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122569479The 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 58596. 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.