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Summers, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Starr Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72769. It stands on Price Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.

Summers within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Summers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30540
26 August 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30584
22 August 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30396
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summers in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2023HailSummers$15,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Summers-This is the second segment of a two segment tornado. The tornado developed near Snake Mountain and moved east-southeast, and then turned to the southeast crossing Salem Springs Road, Highway 59, Bush Valley Road, and then moved along Highway 45 for a time before dissipating east of Clyde. Trees were uprooted and large tree limbs were snapped along the path. It produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSummers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a few trees.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindSummers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees and snapped large tree limbs.
July 2010Flash FloodSummers-High water covered many rural roads. Mail delivery was not possible to some areas outside of Summers.
May 2025HailSummers-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
Cincinnati4.0 miles19
Lincoln4.2 miles15
Sexton (historical)4.6 miles17
Suttle5.0 miles15
Rhea5.2 miles17
Canehill7.1 miles15
Dutch Mills7.3 miles15
Clyde7.7 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 SummersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637633The 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 78496. 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.