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Fargo, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72021. The Survey maps it on the Brinkley quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Fargo within Monroe County

On record in Fargo

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fargo fell from 98 to 57 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
201098
202057-41 (-42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fargo between 1993 and 2018, burning about 430 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Smoking210 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Natural18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Debris and open burning122 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexBANKS
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionLON859527
29 November 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexMCGRAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Fargo: 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
Brewer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFargo-A Union Pacific Mesonet site measured a 67 mph wind gust.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindFargo-A tree was blown down across the highway 49.
February 1993HailFargo-Hail, up to 1.00 inch in diameter, covered the ground and lasted for approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
March 2008HailFargo-no account filed
February 1999HailFargo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Saulsburg2.3 miles15
Zent2.4 miles15
Brinkley4.5 miles15
Eden7.9 miles15
Alfrey8.6 miles15
Bayless9.1 miles15
Dagmar9.2 miles15
Emmons9.9 miles15

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 FargoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2091390The 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 57744. 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.