BlockTucker, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72168. The Survey maps it on the Sherrill quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.
On record in Tucker
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
Tucker Schoollisted 2005- Island of Hope Chapellisted 2024
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.
- 1935 USGS Altheimer 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
- 1963 USGS Sherrill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS De Witt 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 Tucker between 2001 and 2020, burning about 148 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 January 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tucker in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | A tree was blown down on highway 15 near Tucker. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a shed, a large tree and some power lines. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tucker | - | A portion of a shop building was blown off. |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Tucker | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Tucker | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Tucker | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferda | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Secrest (historical) | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sherrill | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Gethsemane | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Plum Bayou (historical) | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Haywood | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Wright | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Pastoria | 7.5 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 Tucker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7851044 | 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 55674. 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.