Black Oak, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72414. It stands on Black Oak Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Caraway quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Black Oak within Craighead County

Population over time

2 figures

Black Oak fell from 262 to 233 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	262
2020	233	-29 (-11%)

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.

1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Caraway quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Oak in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2003: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Black Oak	$10,000	The tornado started near Black Oak and moved northeast. Several trees and power lines were blown down near Monette.
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Black Oak	$1,000	The tornado touched down northeast of Black Oak and moved northeast eventually into Mississippi County. Little damage was reported with the tornado in Craighead County.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Black Oak	$100	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Poplar Ridge	2.0 miles	10
Cane Island (historical)	3.2 miles	10
Cottonwood Corner	3.4 miles	10
Mangrum	3.6 miles	10
Monette	3.8 miles	10
Lake City	3.8 miles	10
Upper Poplar Ridge	4.2 miles	10
Hancock	4.6 miles	10

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 Black Oak	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2901359	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 76365. 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.

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.