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Adona, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Petit Jean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72001. It stands on Howell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adona quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Adona within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Adona fell from 209 to 149 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
2010209
2020149-60 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Adona between 1997 and 2018, burning about 664 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning19
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning120 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Adona: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
A. L. YoungManganeseUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adona in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAdona$75,000Numerous trees were blown down in the area around Wade's Crossing, Thein Rd., Magnolia Rd., Blossom Dr., and Smith's Crossing Rd.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAdona$30,000Trees were blown down, the roof of a house was damaged, and the roof of a chicken house was damaged.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAdona$25,000Two chicken houses were damaged at Wades Crossing.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAdona$1,000A tree and a power line were blown down.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindAdona-Trees were blown down.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindAdona-Thunderstorm winds split open a large tree and uprooted another.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindAdona-Tree down on Highway 324.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindAdona-Some large tree limbs were blown down.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindAdona-Several trees were blown down.
April 2014HailAdona-no account filed
May 2009HailAdona-no account filed
June 2009HailAdona-no account filed
April 2007HailAdona-no account filed
November 2005HailAdona-no account filed
May 1998HailAdona-no account filed
June 1996HailAdona-no account filed
May 1996HailAdona-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindAdona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Cherry Hill3.5 miles15
Homewood4.2 miles18
Rose Creek5.2 miles18
Perry5.5 miles18
Perryville5.5 miles18
Aplin6.2 miles14
West Aplin6.4 miles14
Ragsdale6.7 miles14

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 AdonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233495The 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 45796. 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.