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Almyra, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mill Bayou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72003. The Survey maps it on the Almyra quadrangle. 256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 208 feet above sea level.

Almyra within Arkansas County

On record in Almyra

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

3 figures

Almyra grew from 252 to 256 between 1910 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
1910252
2010283
2020256-27 (-10%)

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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Almyra in 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Almyra in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindAlmyra$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindAlmyra$15,000Power lines and poles were blown down.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAlmyra$5,000Trees were blown down.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Almyra-This tornado is believed to have begun west of Old Almyra Way south of Almyra where debris was noted in a field roughly 100-200 yards to the east of the first Almyra tornado which occurred nearly 25 minutes prior. This tornado then tracked northeast crossing near the intersection of Moss Road and Vos Road where several wooden power poles were snapped. There was a clear delineation in damage between the first Almyra tornado and the second. No additional damage could be found farther northeast, so this is likely where the tornado dissipated. This tornado was rated an EF1 with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph. The path length was 0.9 miles.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAlmyra-Large tree limbs were snapped and a power line was blown down. The time was estimated from radar.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAlmyra-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2003HailAlmyra-Baseball sized hail broke windshields and dented several cars.
July 1995HailAlmyra-A small tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was reported with the tornado.
May 2011Funnel CloudAlmyra-no account filed
March 2002HailAlmyra-no account filed
May 2002HailAlmyra-no account filed
May 2001HailAlmyra-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Almyra-no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindAlmyra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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
Kittlers2.3 miles14
Holdridge2.5 miles13
Sassafras (historical)4.4 miles13
Immanuel4.6 miles13
Olena4.8 miles14
Yoder5.3 miles13
LaGrue5.6 miles13
Burks7.2 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 AlmyraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2639863The 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 76165. 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.