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.
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
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segmentlisted 2010
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Strickler quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
37 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged several chicken houses. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler- | $3,000 | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and large tree limbs at Devil's Den State Park. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $100 | 5-inch diameter tree and several large tree limbs blown down in Devils Den State Park |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $100 | A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed trees at Devils Den State Park 6 miles southeast of Strickler. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $100 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | $100 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Strickler | - | Portions of Highway 265 near Strickler were reported closed due to flooding. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Strickler | - | Portions of South Cove Creek Road were flooded and closed. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Strickler | - | A section of Highway 220 was closed due to rock slide. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Strickler | - | Portions of Highway 220 were closed due to flooding. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour snapped the top of a 6 inch diameter tree off. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Strickler | - | A F1 tornado briefly touched down just northeast of Strickler. Damage was confined to broken tree limbs and blown down trees. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Hail | Strickler | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Strickler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7623603 | 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 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.







