BlockSharum, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in O'Kean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72455. It lies near High Point. The Survey maps it on the O'Kean quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS O'Kean quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1968 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sharum between 2000 and 2009, burning about 192 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 October 2000 | Smoking | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skaggs | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Fender | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| O'Kean | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Shannon | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Running Lake (historical) | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Poluca (historical) | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| East Pocahontas | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Keller (historical) | 6.0 miles | 12 |
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 Q122570969 | The 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 58606. 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.