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Dell, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hector Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72426. The Survey maps it on the Dell quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Dell within Mississippi County

On record in Dell

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Dell fell from 251 to 194 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
2000251
2010223-28 (-11%)
2020194-29 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dell in 1999, burning about 49 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1999Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dell in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDell$5,000Several telephone poles were blown down.
May 2006HailDell$1,000no account filed
May 2000HailDell$60Hail ranged in size from dime to nickle.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindDell-Straight-line winds resulted in some structural and roof damage to buildings in Dell.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Wilson Junction1.2 miles11
Turner1.7 miles11
Shonyo (historical)1.8 miles11
Dearman2.1 miles11
Cole Ridge2.4 miles9
Lowden3.0 miles11
Hightower3.1 miles11
Roseland3.2 miles11

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 DellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660583The 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 57638. 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.

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.