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Tilly, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72843. The Survey maps it on the Tilly quadrangle. It stands 1,946 feet above sea level.

Tilly within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 22 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Tilly between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,695 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2011Natural10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsJACKSON
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2015Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsJULY
23 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2012Natural19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tilly in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTilly$5,000Trees were blown down along Arkansas 27.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindTilly$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTilly$1,000Dog kennels were blown across the highway.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindTilly$50A fence was damaged when tree limbs fell across it.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTilly-Trees were blown down.
May 2010HailTilly-no account filed
June 2009HailTilly-no account filed
February 2008HailTilly-no account filed
April 2003HailTilly-no account filed
April 2003HailTilly-no account filed
April 2002HailTilly-no account filed
April 2002HailTilly-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindTilly-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindTilly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Ella (historical)1.6 miles22
Raspberry5.9 miles22
Nogo6.0 miles22
Smyrna6.6 miles22
Northwood (historical)8.4 miles21
Gabriel (historical)9.4 miles21
Victor10.2 miles15
Lost Corner10.2 miles21

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 TillyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7802890The 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 73873. 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.