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Coal Hill, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72832. The Survey maps it on the Coal Hill quadrangle. 820 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Coal Hill within Johnson County

On record in Coal Hill

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

3 figures

Coal Hill fell from 1,001 to 820 between 2000 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
20001,001
20101,012+11 (+1%)
2020820-192 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Coal Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning95 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Coal Hill: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coal Hill in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 11 injuries. 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
May 2011Tornado (EF2)Coal Hill1 killed, 11 hurt, $5,500,000This is the sixth and final segment of a six-segment tornado. (The first, third, and fifth segments occurred in Franklin County in the Tulsa County Warning Area.) The tornado moved out of Franklin County north of Alix and entered Johnson County northwest of Coal Hill. In Johnson County, the tornado first moved through the Centerpoint community, knocking down trees in the cemetery and badly damaging several residences. The tornado next moved on to the Bethlehem community, where several mobile homes were destroyed and some additional residences were damaged. A 31 year-old woman in one of the mobile homes was killed and approximately 11 other people were injured. The tornado next moved on to Harmony, damaging additional residences, barns, chicken houses, and outbuildings, before continuing into the Ozark National Forest. Damage also occurred near Ozone before the tornado lifted farther to the northeast in the forest. Altogether, at least 65 residences were damaged or destroyed in Johnson County.
March 2008Flash FloodCoal Hill$100,000Low water crossings were flooded in many parts of the county.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill$25,000Trees were down across the western portion of the county.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Multiple trees fell down in the Coal Hill and Hartman areas.
May 2025HailCoal Hill-Half dollar sized hail fell near Coal Hill.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-A tree was downed.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Trees were down along Main Street in Coal Hill.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Trees were blown down by the wind.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Trees were blown down by the wind.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-A tree was blown down. Winds were estimated near 60 mph.
April 2017HailCoal Hill-A picture was on social media of golf ball sized hail mixed with smaller hail just west of Coal Hill.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Shingles were blown off a roof. Road signs were blown down.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Trees were reported down.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Thunderstorm winds blew down several road signs.
August 2006LightningCoal Hill-Lightning struck a large pile of hay bales and set them on fire.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Some large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2002HailCoal Hill-Nickel size hail covered the ground at Coal Hill.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-A storm spotter reported that thunderstorm winds gusted to 65 mph at Coal Hill.
June 1994HailCoal Hill-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
May 2013HailCoal Hill-no account filed
July 2013HailCoal Hill-no account filed
March 2006HailCoal Hill-no account filed
April 2005HailCoal Hill-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
October 2000HailCoal Hill-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodCoal Hill-no account filed
May 1999HailCoal Hill-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodCoal Hill-no account filed
May 1998HailCoal Hill-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
June 1998HailCoal Hill-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Hartman3.1 miles20
Hinkle4.8 miles20
Smeadley (historical)5.0 miles10
Hoyt5.8 miles20
Hunt6.4 miles10
Sulphur Springs6.4 miles20
Montana6.8 miles20
Union City7.5 miles20

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 Coal HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79621The 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 76645. 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.