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Selma, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71670. The Survey maps it on the Selma quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Selma within Drew County

On record in Selma

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

6 surveys from 14 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

44 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Selma between 2001 and 2016, burning about 231 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2006Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selma in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2001Tornado (F1)Selma1 hurtA weak tornado was spawned in northeast Drew County about 6 miles southwest of Selma. The tornado moved quickly northeast, and badly damaged a home. A house trailer was also damaged. Roofs were damaged at a few homes, and many trees were uprooted or snapped. There was one minor injury reported. The tornado travelled about 5.5 miles before dissipating 2.7 miles west-northwest of Selma.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSelma$5,000Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 277.
November 1994HailSelma$5,000Two car windshields were damaged by hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSelma$3,000A few trees were blown down along U.S. 278.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSelma$3,000Trees were blown down in the Dollar Hill area.
July 2025Flash FloodSelma-High water covered portions of AR Highway 135 near Pine Hill Blvd.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSelma-Trees were down along Arkansas Highway 293.
February 2007Tornado (EF1)Selma-A weak tornado touched down briefly in Drew County, southwest of the community of Selma. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado was a few dozen trees that were snapped off or uprooted.
February 1995HailSelma-A funnel cloud was observed by the public.
April 2000Flash FloodSelma-no account filed
April 2000Flash FloodSelma-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindSelma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Sixteenth Section3.4 miles14
Old Piney (historical)5.3 miles14
Tillar6.2 miles13
Florence6.3 miles12
Old Union (historical)7.0 miles14
Winchester7.3 miles14
Enon9.5 miles14
Killin10.9 miles14

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 SelmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7448699The 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 57184. 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.