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Shuler, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marysville quadrangle.

Shuler within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

78 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Shuler between 1997 and 2019, burning about 732 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning21
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shuler in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindShuler-Several trees were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindShuler-Powerlines were blown down on Shuler Road west of El Dorado, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Cairo3.3 miles14
Trull4.1 miles14
Marysville4.5 miles13
Carnie (historical)4.7 miles12
Three Creeks6.3 miles13
Griffin7.5 miles14
Lisbon7.6 miles16
New Hope8.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57189. 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.