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Biscoe, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Lower Surrounded Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72017. It stands on Maloy Bayou. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Biscoe within Prairie County

Population over time

2 figures

Biscoe fell from 363 to 305 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
2010363
2020305-58 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Biscoe between 1992 and 2005, burning about 263 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1

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
4 June 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexGEORGE
29 June 1992Debris and open burning40 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexGEORGE 1
16 June 2005Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 November 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexMC FARLAND
12 November 2001Debris and open burning221 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Biscoe in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2008Heavy RainBiscoe$1,200,000Heavy rain contributed to a fiery pile-up on Interstate 40 near mile marker 203. When the heavy rain began, one vehicle tried to pull onto the shoulder. That vehicle was rear-ended, and in the ensuing chain-reaction, six tractor-trailers and three cars were destroyed. A large fire ensued. Ten fire engines and rescue trucks responded with a total of 28 firefighters. Eight people were injured in the crash, two of them critically. The westbound lanes of the interstate were blocked for more than 4 1/2 hours.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBiscoe$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed several large utility buildings.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindBiscoe-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBiscoe-no account filed
July 1997HailBiscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Brasfield1.5 miles17
Beulah3.6 miles17
De Valls Bluff3.8 miles17
Bucks Landing4.7 miles17
Hallsville4.8 miles17
Yuma (historical)5.1 miles17
Peppers Landing5.4 miles15
Mesa5.5 miles17

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 BiscoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2503896The 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 76355. 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.