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Yocum, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72638. It lies near Buzzard Roost Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Blue Eye quadrangle.

Yocum within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Yocum between 1997 and 2011, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1997Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 December 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 December 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 November 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 November 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 October 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yocum: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yocum in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindYocum-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Oakgrove2.8 miles13
Farewell3.0 miles12
Raum (historical)4.5 miles12
Brasswell Spring (historical)4.6 miles12
Maple4.6 miles13
Cisco5.2 miles13
Indian Creek (historical)5.4 miles12
Blue Eye5.5 miles13

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 YocumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38251012The 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 78823. 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.