BlockTichnor, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72166. The Survey maps it on the Tichnor quadrangle. It stands 184 feet above sea level.
On record in Tichnor
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
Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Buildinglisted 2006
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Gillett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Tichnor quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tichnor between 2008 and 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge | PENIX FIRE |
| 29 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tichnor in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tichnor | $15,000 | A tree fell on a pickup truck. |
| September 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Tichnor | $15,000 | Shingles were torn off a house, tin was peeled back on the roof of a barn, and some trees were knocked down. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Tichnor | $6,000 | Huge hail broke windows in a house and put large dents in two vehicles. On one of the vehicles, paint was knocked off. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Tichnor | $5,000 | Huge hail broke windows in a house and broke the windshields of two trucks. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tichnor | $2,000 | A tree was blown down on Arkansas 44. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Tichnor | - | Golf ball sized hail fell near Tichnor. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Tichnor | - | Water was over several roads in the Tichnor area. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tichnor | - | Several trees were knocked down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tichnor | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tichnor | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Tichnor | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheppard Point | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Deluce | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Weber | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Buffo (historical) | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| La Grue Springs | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gillett | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Hyden | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Prairie Landing | 6.0 miles | 16 |
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 Tichnor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7800599 | 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 78555. 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.