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Earle, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tyronza Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72331. It stands on Gibson Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Earle quadrangle. 1,831 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Earle within Crittenden County

On record in Earle

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Earle fell from 2,414 to 1,831 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
20102,414
20201,831-583 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Earle between 2004 and 2007, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 February 2004Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden 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 Earle: 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
Mauldin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earle in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 1999Thunderstorm WindEarle1 hurt, $15,000Several trees and power poles were knocked down. One tree fell in the middle of a house injuring one person and trapping a second person in bed.
November 2002Tornado (F2)Earle$600,000The tornado moved into Crittenden county from Cross county and continued to move northeast. The tornado produced some damage near the town of Heafer. A mobile home and 2 farm shops were destroyed. A church and parsonage, three mobile homes and five houses were also damaged. The tornado then continued across the county and reached the town of Gilmore. Fourteen mobile homes were destroyed or suffered major damage. Nineteen houses and several cars were also damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down across the county. The tornado eventually moved out of the county near Menesha and entered Mississippi county.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEarle$25,000Several trees down on power lines. Shed blown over. Eighteen wheeler blown over on Highway 64 going into Earle.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindEarle$25,000A roof was blown off of a clinic. Several signs were knocked down. Several houses had trees on top of them with one house receiving major damage.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEarle$10,000A mobile home was pushed off block piers due to straight-line winds.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindEarle$5,000One building had minor damage. Several trees were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEarle$4,000Straight line winds knocked two trees down on a power line in Earle.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEarle$2,000A few trees and power lines were knocked down.
October 2009Flash FloodEarle$1,000A bridge along Highway 118 just north of Earle was flooded.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEarle$1,000One large tree was knocked down.
December 1996Thunderstorm WindEarle$1,000no account filed
April 1998HailEarle$750no account filed
March 2005HailEarle$150no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindEarle$100Straight line winds blew a passenger side window out of a car in the western side of Earle.
May 1995HailEarle$100no account filed
July 2005HailEarle$10no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEarle-Damaged occurred across Earle. The roof was partially torn off the high school. Trees were uprooted and snapped. Power lines were knocked down across town. A large tree fell on a trailer and car.
June 2020HailEarle-Quarter size hail fell between Earle and Parkin.
March 2015HailEarle-Quarter size hail near Highways 64 and 149 in Earle.
October 2014HailEarle-Quarter to Golfball size hail fell in Earle.
September 2011HailEarle-Quarter size hail fell at the high school in Earle.
July 2009Flash FloodEarle-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Earle. Several roads were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Norvell0.7 miles11
Shannonville1.0 miles11
Crittenden2.2 miles12
Cloar2.4 miles11
Grassy Lake Bottom3.8 miles11
Wildcat (historical)4.2 miles12
Three Forks4.5 miles11
Lansing4.6 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 EarleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79615The 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 48738. 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.