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.
Population over time
2 figuresAmagon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 98 | |
| 2020 | 69 | -29 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Amagon quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1997Regional 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 March 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 70 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged some grain bins and farm buildings. Several trees and antennas were also blown down. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down at Amagon. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree onto Highway 14. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Thunderstorm winds blew half the roof off a barn in Amagon. |
| February 2001 | Tornado (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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees and power lines. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a storage shed. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | Thunderstorm winds caused structural damage to several buildings. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amagon | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Amagon | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Amagon | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Amagon | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Amagon | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringers Mill | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Wilkinsville (historical) | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Remmel | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Johnstown | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Midway | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Balch | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Pennington | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Stegall | 3.5 miles | 11 |
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 Amagon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2375863 | The 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.





