Ulm, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roc Roe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72170. The Survey maps it on the Ulm quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUlm grew from 170 to 175 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 170 | |
| 2020 | 175 | +5 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 15 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 Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Ulm quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Clarendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ulm between 1998 and 2020, burning about 27 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 October 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulm in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Ulm | - | Quarter-sized hail fell in the community of Ulm. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ulm | - | Multiple trees were blown down across Ulm. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ulm | - | A number of trees and power lines were blown down in and around Ulm. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Ulm | - | Water was reported over several roads in the Ulm area. |
| November 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Ulm | - | A tornado touched down briefly, taking the roof off a house, overturning a truck, damaging a barn and farm shed, and moving two other trucks. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Ulm | - | no account filed |
| January 1993 | Hail | Ulm | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bardill (historical) | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Beecher (historical) | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Kay | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Nahay (historical) | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Fairmount | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Slovak | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Slovaktown (historical) | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Balle (historical) | 8.7 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 Ulm | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1877375 | 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 58780. 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.











