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Sylamore, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Canning Kitchen Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sylamore quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Sylamore within Izard County

On record in Sylamore

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

9 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

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sylamore between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,332 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
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
7 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGREEN
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLONG
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROSA
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1997Debris and open burning100 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sylamore: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Allison Mine & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allison PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylamore in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 30 injuries. 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
April 1996Tornado (F4)Sylamore2 killed, 30 hurt, $5,000,000no account filed
April 2008Flash FloodSylamore$25,000Arkansas Highway 9 between Newburg and Brockwell was flooded. Several county roads were flooded.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSylamore-Large tree limbs were downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSylamore-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a cabin.
June 1995HailSylamore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Ruddells (historical)1.2 miles16
Arkins (historical)3.3 miles16
Twin Creek3.8 miles16
Mount Olive4.2 miles19
Brandenburg4.9 miles16
Nasco6.7 miles14
Boswell7.4 miles19
Lone Star7.6 miles10

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 SylamoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7660542The 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 73810. 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.