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Wilmar, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71675. The Survey maps it on the Wilmar North quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Wilmar within Drew County

On record in Wilmar

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Wilmar fell from 511 to 395 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
2010511
2020395-116 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

105 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Wilmar between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,162 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Debris and open burning8.9 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wilmar: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
H L Oneill & Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmar in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindWilmar$75,000A number of trees were blown down in and around Wilmar. Some of the trees landed on power lines and roofs of several homes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWilmar$10,000A tree fell on a house in Wilmar.
May 2009Flash FloodWilmar$10,000Several county roads outside of Monticello were closed due to high water.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindWilmar$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
January 2008LightningWilmar$2,000An electrical transformer was hit by lightning, which caused a fire in the surrounding trees.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWilmar$1,000A tree was blown down.
May 2024HailWilmar-Half-dollar sized hail fell in the town of Wilmar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWilmar-A tree limb was blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWilmar-Downburst winds up to 60 mph downed some large trees.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWilmar-Several trees were blown down.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWilmar-Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines. One of the live power lines caused a house fire to ignite. The fire caused major damage to the home.
April 2006HailWilmar-no account filed
April 2006HailWilmar-no account filed
March 2002HailWilmar-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmar-no account filed
July 1994HailWilmar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Allis1.4 miles9
Barkada3.4 miles9
Tennessee4.4 miles9
Green Hill4.8 miles9
Brandon6.3 miles9
Rose Hill6.7 miles9
Bowser (historical)7.0 miles9
New Hope7.3 miles9

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 WilmarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79270The 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 78782. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.