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Snyder, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Banner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71658. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snyder quadrangle.

Snyder within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

31 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Snyder between 2001 and 2018, burning about 444 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking2

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
28 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snyder in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSnyder$11,000A few power lines were blown down.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSnyder$3,000Several trees were blown down along US Highway 82 between Hamburg and Montrose blocking the highway. Other trees were blown down across eastern Ashley County.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindSnyder$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across Old Portland Road.
August 2002HailSnyder-A thunderstorm produced quarter- to golfball-sized hail as it moved over the community.
July 2013HailSnyder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
Post Oak0.5 miles13
Thebes2.1 miles13
Phelan (historical)2.2 miles13
Mount Pleasant3.2 miles16
Donbey3.9 miles13
Mist3.9 miles13
Trafalgar4.3 miles13
Berea5.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 54993. 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.