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Bull Shoals, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72619. It stands on Strawberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bull Shoals quadrangle. 1,952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Bull Shoals within Marion County

On record in Bull Shoals

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bull Shoals grew from 1,950 to 1,952 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
20101,950
20201,952+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bull Shoals between 1997 and 2019, burning about 487 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCOZY FIRE
26 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Bull Shoals: 13 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Iron. 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
Shiras MineIron, Zinc, LeadProspect
Durham ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
FrostLead, ZincUnknown
Hoffman ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Mitchell MineLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
Bardeen ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Big John ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Cedar Gap ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Green Horn ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Hyland DepositLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bull Shoals in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals$3,000,000One boat dock was overturned onto another dock, and several additional boat docks were damaged. Dozens of boats were damaged or destroyed; some of the boats sank. Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the Bull Shoals area, blocking Arkansas 178 and numerous county roads.
October 2007LightningBull Shoals$2,000Lightning knocked down a large tree. The tree caused minor damage to the garage of a house.
March 2026HailBull Shoals-Quarter-sized hail fell near the town of Bull Shoals with a significant amount of hail falling leading to a few hail drifts.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-Numerous trees were blown down near the Bull Shoals Dam covering portions of Marion and Baxter Counties.
November 2024Heavy RainBull Shoals-A rainfall total of 7.24 inches was measured at Bull Shoals over a 24 hour period ending on November 4, 2024 at 6:04 AM CST.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-Several boat docks were turned over on Bull Shoals Lake.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-Trees were blown down.
April 2006HailBull Shoals-Some windows were broken out.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-Trees and power lines knocked down.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-Several boats were blown away from a dock and some were damaged by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailBull Shoals-no account filed
May 2017HailBull Shoals-no account filed
May 2017HailBull Shoals-no account filed
July 2011HailBull Shoals-no account filed
April 2004HailBull Shoals-no account filed
May 2003HailBull Shoals-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-no account filed
June 1997HailBull Shoals-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBull Shoals-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F1)Bull Shoals-no account filed
April 1995HailBull Shoals-no account filed
May 1995HailBull Shoals-no account filed
July 1994HailBull Shoals-no account filed
November 1994HailBull Shoals-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Fairview3.7 miles18
Stone (historical)4.3 miles17
Midway4.7 miles17
Oakland5.3 miles18
Kingdom Springs (historical)5.4 miles17
Flippin7.3 miles18
Price Place7.7 miles18
Pine Branch8.8 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 Bull ShoalsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79505The 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 76463. 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.