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Shumaker, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71720. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Mills quadrangle.

Shumaker within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

187 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Shumaker between 1997 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural14
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Shumaker: 18 past producers, 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fairchild PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shumaker in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Shumaker$2,000After damaging the campus of Southern Arkansas University Tech, this tornado continued tracking through the Highland Industrial Park, passing from the Calhoun County portion into the Ouachita County portion. The tornado knocked down a few trees and then ended quickly.

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Onalaska (historical)0.8 miles16
Lilley (historical)0.9 miles16
Eagle Mills1.3 miles16
Vanduzer2.9 miles15
Harmony Grove3.2 miles15
Camark3.5 miles15
Salem3.9 miles16
Warner4.5 miles15

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 Q122560951The 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 58624. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.