BlockTillar, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71670. The Survey maps it on the McGehee North quadrangle.
On record in Tillar
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 2 records
Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Southlisted 1997- Bank of Tillarlisted 2022
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Mc Gehee NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Mc Gehee North quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tillar between 2001 and 2009, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tillar in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds moved several cotton trailers. An airplane was moved and an airport hangar was also damaged. Several mobile homes were also moved off their supports slightly. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $25,000 | Trees were down across the area. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $2,000 | Trees were blown down onto U.S. 278. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Tillar | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Tillar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Selma | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sixteenth Section | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| Florence | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Old Piney (historical) | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Baxter | 12.8 miles | 13 | |
| Leavits (historical) | 12.8 miles | 13 | |
| Old Union (historical) | 12.9 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58746. 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.