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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.

Ulm within Prairie County

Population over time

2 figures

Ulm 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.

YearPeople Change
2010170
2020175+5 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

6 since 1998

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 November 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 October 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailUlm-Quarter-sized hail fell in the community of Ulm.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindUlm-Multiple trees were blown down across Ulm.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindUlm-A number of trees and power lines were blown down in and around Ulm.
July 2007Flash FloodUlm-Water was reported over several roads in the Ulm area.
November 1995Tornado (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 2016HailUlm-no account filed
January 1993HailUlm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Bardill (historical)0.9 miles15
Beecher (historical)4.6 miles15
Kay4.8 miles15
Nahay (historical)6.3 miles16
Fairmount7.5 miles15
Slovak8.2 miles16
Slovaktown (historical)8.2 miles16
Balle (historical)8.7 miles16

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 UlmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1877375The 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.