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Emmet, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Emmet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71835. The Survey maps it on the Emmet quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Emmet within Nevada County

On record in Emmet

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Emmet fell from 518 to 415 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
2010518
2020415-103 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Emmet between 1998 and 2020, burning about 634 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Arson/incendiarism32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Emmet: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Hickey Bros Service StationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmet in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEmmet$245,000Two homes suffered heavy roof damage and two large barns were blown down. Also, numerous trees were toppled and broken.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEmmet$50,000Numerous trees were downed in the community of Emmet, Arkansas. Tim roofs were removed from storage facilities.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindEmmet$50,000Several chicken houses were damaged.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEmmet$15,000A tree was downed on a vehicle on Hwy. 299 east of Emmitt, Arkansas. There was no report of injuries.
April 2025Flash FloodEmmet-Widespread flash flooding was reported across Nevada County. Multiple county roads were flooded and closed, with several bridges washed out.
July 2019Flash FloodEmmet-Approximately 1.2 miles of Highway 67 south of Prescott was closed in both directions due to flooding.
April 2016HailEmmet-Quarter size hail fell in Emmet.
December 2015HailEmmet-Golfball sized hail was reported in the Emmet, Arkansas community.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEmmet-Highway 299 was closed due to downed trees east of Emmet, Arkansas.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindEmmet-Trees downed.
June 2003Flash FloodEmmet-Motorists were stranded along Highway 299 between Emmit and Laneburg due to high water.
June 2000Flash FloodEmmet-Hwy 53 and 299 were barricaded due to high flood waters.
May 2001HailEmmet-no account filed
January 1999HailEmmet-no account filed
July 1994HailEmmet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Midway5.9 miles16
Harmony6.2 miles15
Sutton6.8 miles15
Clayton (historical)7.1 miles15
Prescott7.1 miles16
Laneburg7.1 miles15
Azor9.6 miles15
Pleasant Hill9.8 miles16

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 EmmetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79520The 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 48893. 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.