Black Oak, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72386. The Survey maps it on the Joyland quadrangle.

Black Oak within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Joyland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Deckerville quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Black Oak: 1 producer. All of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Easton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Oak in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2001	Flash Flood	Black Oak	$5,000	A shed was flooded, destroying the contents. Water reached up to but not into several homes.
April 2026	Flash Flood	Black Oak	-	Highway 149 was flooded from Perkins Road south to the county line.

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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
Mount Olive	1.9 miles	11
Joyland	2.3 miles	11
Yellow Banks	2.7 miles	11
Tyronza	3.8 miles	10
Northern Ohio	4.0 miles	11
Dewey Mill	4.0 miles	11
Tyronza Junction	4.1 miles	11
Beasley	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 46674. 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.

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.