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Wiseman, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Baker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72512. It stands on Bullpen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Wiseman within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

113 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Wiseman between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,445 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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
Debris and open burning46
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
3 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wiseman: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, 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
LowranceManganese, IronOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiseman in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2010Thunderstorm WindWiseman$40,000Several windows were blown out in Wiseman. A tractor was blown over and moved, and part of a roof was torn off.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWiseman-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
January 2000Tornado (F1)Wiseman-A weak tornado was spawned in northeastern Izard County about a mile southwest of Wiseman. The tornado moved northeast, and damaged the roofs of 9 residences in or near Wiseman, with the damage mostly due to falling trees or tree limbs. Several roofs lost shingles, including the local community center. A few windows were broken as well. The tornado dissipated about about 0.7 mile northeast of Wiseman.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWiseman-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a storage building at a local golf course.

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Horseshoe Bend2.7 miles10
Day4.7 miles9
Franklin4.9 miles10
Violet Hill5.7 miles10
Oxford6.1 miles10
Myron6.8 miles9
Jett (historical)6.9 miles10
New Liberty7.6 miles10

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 WisemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8027499The 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 58903. 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.