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Tamo, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71644. The Survey maps it on the Tarry quadrangle.

Tamo within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tamo between 2004 and 2020, burning about 219 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 burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
20 August 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 February 2011Debris and open burning18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tamo: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
Clous-DobsonManganeseProspect
Haddock ProspectManganesePast Producer1917

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamo in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 1993Thunderstorm WindTamo$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several power poles and telephone lines.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindTamo$5,000Some trees were blown down.
October 2007Funnel CloudTamo-A funnel cloud was reported off of Tamo River Road.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTamo-no account filed
March 1996HailTamo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Dolton (historical)0.9 miles15
Moscow3.1 miles15
Linwood3.6 miles15
Linn (historical)6.0 miles16
Sweden6.0 miles16
Swan Lake6.1 miles16
Hooker6.5 miles16
Clements (historical)6.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78522. 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.