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Amagon, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richwoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72005. The Survey maps it on the Amagon quadrangle. 69 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Amagon within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Amagon fell from 98 to 69 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
201098
202069-29 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Amagon between 1997 and 2016, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
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
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 March 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 March 1997Arson/incendiarism70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 January 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 January 2016Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amagon in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindAmagon$500,000Thunderstorm winds damaged some grain bins and farm buildings. Several trees and antennas were also blown down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindAmagon$3,000Several trees were blown down at Amagon.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree onto Highway 14.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Thunderstorm winds blew half the roof off a barn in Amagon.
February 2001Tornado (F2)Amagon-A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Jackson County about 1.6 miles east of Amagon. The tornado moved quickly northeast, and heavily damaged a mobile home. The tornado downed a tree onto another mobile home, and damaged or destroyed several sheds, carports and outbuildings. Also, there was some minor roof damage at a few homes. Trees and power lines were also downed. The tornado travelled about 7 miles before exiting Jackson County about 2 miles east of Grubbs. The tornado moved into Poinsett County, which is in the Memphis County Warning Area.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees and power lines.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a storage shed.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindAmagon-Thunderstorm winds caused structural damage to several buildings.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAmagon-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAmagon-no account filed
April 2001HailAmagon-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F1)Amagon-no account filed
June 1999HailAmagon-no account filed
July 1996HailAmagon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Stringers Mill2.7 miles10
Wilkinsville (historical)2.8 miles10
Remmel3.0 miles11
Johnstown3.0 miles11
Midway3.1 miles10
Balch3.2 miles10
Pennington3.2 miles10
Stegall3.5 miles11

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 AmagonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2375863The 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 57262. 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.