Elm Grove, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72437. The Survey maps it on the Hatchie Coon quadrangle.

Elm Grove within Craighead County

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.

1941 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Hatchie Coon quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 1998 and 2000, burning about 4 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	2

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
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Grove in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado. 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 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Elm Grove	$25,000	An EF1 tornado formed in a field north of County Road 618 just south of Lunsford, overturning a center-pivot irrigation system. The tornado moved northeast, snapping several power poles along County Road 817. One outbuilding and a home sustained roof damage on County Road 815. The tornado crossed the St. Francis River near Sandy, producing minor tree damage on County Road 848 near the Mangrum community before lifting. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Longwill	0.8 miles	11
Lunsford	2.0 miles	10
Davis Spur	3.2 miles	9
Deep Landing	3.5 miles	11
Sandy	3.6 miles	10
Bay	4.2 miles	9
Gum Point	4.4 miles	10
Bunney	5.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57716. 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.