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Avilla, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72002. The Survey maps it on the Congo quadrangle. 1,325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Avilla within Saline County

Population over time

2 figures

Avilla grew from 896 to 1,325 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
2010896
20201,325+429 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

123 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Avilla between 1997 and 2020, burning about 724 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Avilla: 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Nickel, Nickel, Talc-Soapstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Wallis Soapstone PitTalc-Soapstone, NickelProspect
Arkansas Talc Co. MineTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
Duke-Warner PitNickel, Talc-SoapstoneProspect
Inman Soapstone ProspectNickel, Talc-SoapstoneProspect
UnknownNickel, Talc-SoapstoneProspect
UnnamedNickelOccurrencePyrite, Pyrrhotite, Soapstone

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avilla in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindAvilla$75,000Two barns were blown down, some outbuildings were damaged, and trees were blown down onto roads.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAvilla$5,000Trees were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAvilla-Several trees fell down onto Snow Lane near the community of Congo.
May 2024HailAvilla-Quarter-sized hail fell near the community of Congo via mPING.
June 2021Flash FloodAvilla-The intersection at Sparks Rd. at Zuber road flooded. Water was over many roads in the area.
February 2018Flash FloodAvilla-Multiple roads are flooded with water running over them in Searcy County.
May 2011HailAvilla-Hail up to nickel size covered the ground.
October 2009Flash FloodAvilla-A private road was flooded.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindAvilla-The roof of a boat dock was blown off.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAvilla-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees near the Saline/Pulaski County line.
April 2017HailAvilla-no account filed
March 2015HailAvilla-no account filed
May 2008HailAvilla-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAvilla-no account filed
January 1999HailAvilla-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindAvilla-no account filed
July 1998HailAvilla-no account filed
February 1998HailAvilla-no account filed
March 1996HailAvilla-no account filed
October 1995HailAvilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Congo1.6 miles20
Tatumville (historical)2.0 miles20
Salem4.0 miles20
Grape5.0 miles19
Springhill5.3 miles20
Bland5.5 miles19
Sherwood Estates6.0 miles23
Edgewood6.4 miles23

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 AvillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4828849The 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 56912. 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.