Delaplaine, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72425. It lies near Jones Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Delaplaine quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDelaplaine fell from 116 to 64 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 | 116 | |
| 2020 | 64 | -52 (-45%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Delaplaine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Delaplaine between 2003 and 2005, burning about 70 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delaplaine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Usfs Land | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delaplaine in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 47 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F3) | Delaplaine | 47 hurt, $25,000,000 | A tornado continued to track east from Randolph County into Greene County and eventually continued into Dunklin County, Missouri. The hardest hit area was in the town of Marmaduke. Forty-seven injuries occurred in Marmaduke with two people being airlifted to a local hospital. One hundred and thirty houses were destroyed in Marmaduke with twenty-five mobile homes also being destroyed. A pharmacy was also destroyed in Marmaduke. Outside of Marmaduke, in the rest of the county, nineteen homes and 11 mobile homes were destroyed. In addition, seven houses and two mobile homes had major damage in the county. In all, approximately five hundred homes were affected. |
| February 2011 | Flash Flood | Delaplaine | $100,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Northwest Greene County. County Road 138 was closed due to flooding along with all the low water crossings across Northwest Greene County. The Evening Star community on County Roads 223 and 229 was completely flooded. The Stanford community had some flooding on County Road 203 while County Road 215 was flooded near Beech Groove. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Delaplaine | $75,000 | Heavy rain produced flooding along the Black River and it's tributaries. County Roads 933, 960, 911, 520, and 435 were closed as a result of the flooding. Many residents were forced to evacuate due to the rising flood waters. Two houses and several roads received major damage. County road 520 was washed away. Greene County was declared a state disaster area. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delaplaine | $45,000 | Three silos were destroyed and thrown into a nearby field along Highway 280 near the Greene-Clay county line between Delaphaine and Brookings. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delaplaine | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delaplaine | $1,000 | One building was damaged. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Delaplaine | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Delaplaine | $1,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Delaplaine | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Delaplaine | $50 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Delaplaine | $10 | Flash flood waters covered County Road 111 and a family had to be rescued from the rising flood waters. |
| October 2001 | Hail | Delaplaine | $10 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Delaplaine | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delaplaine | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees all across Greene County. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Delaplaine | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case (historical) | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Mollus (historical) | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Case | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Evening Star | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Black Jack | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Beech Grove | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Faulknerville | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Stonewall | 9.3 miles | 14 |
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 Delaplaine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2348526 | 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 76777. 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.







