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Shirley, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72153. It lies near Good Spur Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Shirley within Van Buren County

On record in Shirley

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Shirley fell from 337 to 248 between 2000 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
2000337
2010291-46 (-14%)
2020248-43 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Shirley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 595 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shirley in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
September 2008Flash FloodShirley$450,000Flooding occurred across the county.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindShirley$150,000Thousands of trees were snapped off, uprooted and/or blown down within a seven mile radius of Shirley. Several trees fell on houses. Shingles were taken off of roofs and metal off of barns. Outbuildings were damaged and a vehicle was trapped by fallen power lines.
March 1997Tornado (F1)Shirley$50,000no account filed
January 2013Thunderstorm WindShirley$5,000Trees were blown down.
August 2023HailShirley-Half-dollar sized hail fell in the community of Shirley.
May 2020Flash FloodShirley-Silver Rock Road on the south side of Shirley, was flooded. Weaver Creek was also out of its banks in eastern Van Buren County. Other commonly flooded low-lying areas were flooded in eastern Van Buren County.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindShirley-A tree was reported down off Arkansas Highway 110, near Bud Brown Hill.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindShirley-A few small trees downed.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Shirley-A weak tornado was spawned in northeastern Van Buren County roughly 6 miles south-southwest of Shirley. The tornado snapped a few trees before dissipating 2.8 miles south of Shirley.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindShirley-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindShirley-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 2023HailShirley-no account filed
October 2016HailShirley-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindShirley-no account filed
March 2002HailShirley-no account filed
March 2002HailShirley-no account filed
May 2001HailShirley-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindShirley-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindShirley-no account filed
September 1998HailShirley-no account filed
April 1998HailShirley-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindShirley-no account filed
June 1995HailShirley-no account filed
October 1995HailShirley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Settlement (historical)0.8 miles17
Poe (historical)2.7 miles17
Kinderhook (historical)4.4 miles16
Fairfield Bay4.8 miles16
Banner (historical)4.8 miles15
Eglantine5.3 miles16
Pee Dee6.3 miles15
Palisades8.6 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 ShirleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928597The 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 54811. 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.