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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.

Delaplaine within Greene County

Population over time

2 figures

Delaplaine 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.

YearPeople Change
2010116
202064-52 (-45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

2 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 November 2005Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F3)Delaplaine47 hurt, $25,000,000A 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 2011Flash FloodDelaplaine$100,000Heavy 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 2008FloodDelaplaine$75,000Heavy 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 2024Thunderstorm WindDelaplaine$45,000Three silos were destroyed and thrown into a nearby field along Highway 280 near the Greene-Clay county line between Delaphaine and Brookings.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindDelaplaine$5,000A few trees were blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDelaplaine$1,000One building was damaged.
July 2008HailDelaplaine$1,000no account filed
April 2006HailDelaplaine$1,000no account filed
October 2004HailDelaplaine$500no account filed
August 2002HailDelaplaine$50no account filed
September 2006Flash FloodDelaplaine$10Flash flood waters covered County Road 111 and a family had to be rescued from the rising flood waters.
October 2001HailDelaplaine$10no account filed
May 1998HailDelaplaine$10no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDelaplaine-Straight line winds knocked down trees all across Greene County.
May 2009HailDelaplaine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Case (historical)1.2 miles14
Mollus (historical)2.0 miles14
Case2.6 miles14
Evening Star3.8 miles14
Black Jack4.0 miles14
Beech Grove7.1 miles14
Faulknerville9.1 miles14
Stonewall9.3 miles14

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 DelaplaineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2348526The 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.