BlockElaine, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Tappan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72333. The Survey maps it on the Elaine quadrangle. 509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.
On record in Elaine
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
- Lee Grocery Storelisted 2020
Population over time
3 figuresElaine fell from 865 to 509 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 | 865 | |
| 2010 | 636 | -229 (-26%) |
| 2020 | 509 | -127 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 16 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.
- 1939 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Elaine quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Clarksdale quadrangle1:100000
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 Elaine: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elaine in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Elaine | $500,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding over Eastern Phillips County. At least 60 homes sustained some water damage. Several roads were flooded in Elaine, Lexa, and Helena-West Helena and some sustained damage. At least 1 foot of water covered Highway 242 near Lick Creek. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elaine | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several television antennas in Postelle and Elaine. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elaine | $50,000 | Straight-line winds damaged several homes and barns in Elaine. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elaine | $5,000 | More than a dozen power lines were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elaine | $2,500 | Some power lines were knocked down 5 miles north of Elaine. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Elaine | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Elaine | $750 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Elaine | $10 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Star | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ragan | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Countiss | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Hoop Spur | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Modoc Landing | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Fair Landing | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Ewal | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Modoc | 4.3 miles | 16 |
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 Elaine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79625 | 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 48832. 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.
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.