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Banks, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 71631. The Survey maps it on the Banks quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.

Banks within Bradley County

Population over time

2 figures

Banks fell from 124 to 87 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
2010124
202087-37 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

46 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Banks between 2001 and 2019, burning about 221 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
26 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2005Natural17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2015Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Banks: 11 producers, 2 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banks in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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
September 2008Flash FloodBanks$1,540,000Numerous paved and gravel roads washed out and flooded throughout the county. Arkansas Highway 160 at U.S. Highway 63 was closed due to flooding.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBanks$20,000A tree fell on a car on U.S. 278. No one was injured.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBanks$15,000Trees were blown down, causing severe damage to a mobile home. There were no injuries.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindBanks$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBanks-Trees were down across the area.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBanks-Some large tree limbs were downed.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBanks-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
December 2002Tornado (F1)Banks-An F1 tornado touched down 6.5 miles north-northwest of Banks and tracked to the northeast for 3.1 miles before lifting. The tornado caused a small garage to collapse. Several large trees were blown down. One of the trees damaged the roof of a mobile home and another tree collapsed the porch roof of a hunting lodge. There were also quite a few trees that were snapped off.
November 2001Tornado (F2)Banks-A strong tornado was spawned in northern Bradley County. The tornado first touched down 4 miles east-northeast of Banks and traveled to the northeast. The most severe damage occurred in the McKinney community, or about 7 miles northeast of Banks, where a number of mobile homes were destroyed. Several of these mobile homes were blown completely into pieces, some of which were used for storage. A couple of other houses suffered considerable damage as well. Some barns and sheds were also destroyed. The tornado continued to track into Cleveland County.
May 1994HailBanks-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto Highway 8.
September 2013Heavy RainBanks-no account filed
April 2006HailBanks-no account filed
April 2004HailBanks-no account filed
May 2003HailBanks-no account filed
May 2003HailBanks-no account filed
April 1999HailBanks-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBanks-no account filed
March 1996HailBanks-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindBanks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Lanark3.0 miles12
Glynn (historical)3.2 miles12
Craney4.5 miles13
Blue Springs (historical)4.5 miles12
Lacy (historical)4.7 miles13
Gin (historical)4.8 miles13
Cross Roads4.8 miles13
Draper (historical)5.7 miles13

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 BanksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1865174The 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 46076. 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.