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Summit, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72677. It stands on Hampton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cotter SW quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Summit within Marion County

Population over time

3 figures

Summit fell from 586 to 544 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000586
2010604+18 (+3%)
2020544-60 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

67 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1997 and 2019, burning about 934 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 August 2007Debris and open burning18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAR27491173
29 July 2012Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 23 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Flippin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Jefferson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownZinc, LeadUnknown
UnknownZinc, LeadUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Big Buffalo MineLead, ZincUnknown
Homestake ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Old Lead MineLead, ZincUnknown

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 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
May 2015Flash FloodSummit$15,000A car was trapped in rising water over County Road 7095 west of Summit in Marion County.
June 2014Flash FloodSummit$10,000Flash flooding occurred in the Yellville area. There was an unofficial measurement of 1.90 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Streets were flooded and low-water crossings had to be barricaded. Water entered the County Courthouse basement and the Courthouse Annex.
July 2010Flash FloodSummit$2,000There were multiple reports of street flooding in Yellville.
April 2021Flash FloodSummit-Numerous low water crossings throughout the county are flooded with many being barricaded.
November 2018HailSummit-Penny sized hail was reported at Hilltop Liquor in Summit. Time estimated from radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSummit-Numerous trees were down north of Summit.
June 2016Flash FloodSummit-Highway 202/Fallen Ash Rd. had 3 feet of water over it and several county roads were flooded across northern Marion County.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSummit-Tree limbs were down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSummit-A tree was down on Arkansas Highway 14.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Yellville1.8 miles16
Georges Creek3.8 miles15
Turkey3.9 miles16
Comal4.5 miles16
Flippin5.3 miles18
Ralph5.6 miles16
Big Springs (historical)5.7 miles16
Kingdom Springs (historical)5.8 miles17

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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80153The 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 78498. 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.