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Strickler, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Cove Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72774. It lies near Lick Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Strickler quadrangle. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.

Strickler within Washington County

On record in Strickler

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

37 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Strickler between 1999 and 2017, burning about 769 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strickler in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flood, 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
November 2022Thunderstorm WindStrickler$50,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged several chicken houses.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindStrickler$8,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindStrickler-$3,000no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindStrickler$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and large tree limbs at Devil's Den State Park.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindStrickler$1005-inch diameter tree and several large tree limbs blown down in Devils Den State Park
July 1997Thunderstorm WindStrickler$100A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed trees at Devils Den State Park 6 miles southeast of Strickler.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindStrickler$100no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindStrickler$100no account filed
June 2019Flash FloodStrickler-Portions of Highway 265 near Strickler were reported closed due to flooding.
June 2019Flash FloodStrickler-Portions of South Cove Creek Road were flooded and closed.
December 2015FloodStrickler-A section of Highway 220 was closed due to rock slide.
December 2015FloodStrickler-Portions of Highway 220 were closed due to flooding.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindStrickler-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour snapped the top of a 6 inch diameter tree off.
April 2004Tornado (F1)Strickler-A F1 tornado briefly touched down just northeast of Strickler. Damage was confined to broken tree limbs and blown down trees.
March 2017HailStrickler-no account filed
April 2011HailStrickler-no account filed
March 2008HailStrickler-no account filed
April 2008HailStrickler-no account filed
March 2008HailStrickler-no account filed
May 2000HailStrickler-no account filed
April 1998HailStrickler-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindStrickler-no account filed
May 1995HailStrickler-no account filed
October 1995HailStrickler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Onda2.5 miles16
Floss3.7 miles16
Skylight4.3 miles15
Hubbard5.0 miles16
Blackburn5.1 miles15
Clyde6.4 miles15
Hogeye6.4 miles16
Morrow6.8 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.

Wikipedia article on StricklerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7623603The 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 78474. 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.