Shoffner, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Breckenridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. The Survey maps it on the Tupelo quadrangle.

Shoffner within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Shoffner between 1992 and 2017, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	BLACK
19 June 1998	Debris and open burning	76 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ALLEN
2 March 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY 145
12 March 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 February 2015	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoffner in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Shoffner	-	This tornado began near the intersection of Jackson County Road 21 and State Highway 17. Limbs were scattered on the road. \|\|The tornado moved over open farmland. There was no visible damage to assess. However, a storm chaser in the area provided video proof of the funnel touching the ground, and this was near the intersection of Jackson County Road 30 and Arkansas Highway 145 South. \|\|The tornado lifted southwest of Amagon. It may not have been in contact with the ground the entire time.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoffner	-	Large limbs were blown down.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoffner	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Shoffner	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Weldon	1.8 miles	10
Auvergne	2.9 miles	11
Blackville	3.6 miles	10
Horseshoe	3.7 miles	13
Ingleside	4.9 miles	11
Spriggs Mill	4.9 miles	11
Bengel	5.1 miles	11
Tupelo	5.4 miles	10

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 Q122544307

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 58621. 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.