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.
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
Widner-Magers Farm Historic Districtlisted 2007
Population over time
3 figuresDell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 251 | |
| 2010 | 223 | -28 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 194 | -29 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1941 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Manila quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Dell quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell | $5,000 | Several telephone poles were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dell | $60 | Hail ranged in size from dime to nickle. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell | - | Straight-line winds resulted in some structural and roof damage to buildings in Dell. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Junction | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Turner | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Shonyo (historical) | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Dearman | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cole Ridge | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Lowden | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hightower | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Roseland | 3.2 miles | 11 |
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 Dell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2660583 | 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 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.





