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Fisher, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Owen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72429. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Ridge quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Fisher within Poinsett County

Population over time

2 figures

Fisher fell from 223 to 180 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
2010223
2020180-43 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fisher between 1999 and 2005, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
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
19 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 March 2004Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 March 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fisher in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Flash FloodFisher$150,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding across Poinsett County. A bridge on Old Military Road was washed out. In addition, U.S. Highway 214 near Fisher was underwater. Several homes were flooded in Lepanto as well.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFisher$75,000Sixteen power-poles in a row snapped and a metal barn blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFisher$75,000Two large grain bins were completely destroyed near County Road 100. One grain bin was tossed 75 feet across the road into a bunch of trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFisher$50,000Wind damage to a power sub station.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFisher$25,000Broken wood cross member on an electrical transmission line.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFisher$10,000Trees and powerlines downed near Prairie Road.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFisher$10,000Two homes suffered minor damage. A few trees were uprooted.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFisher$5,000Straight line winds blew telephone poles down on Route 214 3 miles east of Fisher.
March 1997Tornado (F3)Fisher$5,000no account filed
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFisher$2,000Straight line winds knocked down power poles on Arkansas State Highway 214.
May 2006HailFisher$1,000no account filed
April 2005HailFisher$750no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFisher-Estimated 70 mph gust.
February 2019FloodFisher-Highway 214 closed due to flooding from Highway 49 in Fisher to Longview Lane.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFisher-Straight line winds caused minor roof damage to houses in Fisher, Harrisburg and Truman. A carport was knocked down near Fisher and a few signs were blown down in Trumann. Trees and power lines were knocked down throughout the county.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFisher-Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Fisher.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFisher-Straight line winds blew several trees and power lines down between Fisher and Waldenburg along Highway 49.
September 2011HailFisher-no account filed
May 2011HailFisher-no account filed
May 2010HailFisher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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
Brushey Lake3.2 miles12
Waldenburg5.5 miles12
Weiner9.8 miles12
McDaniel11.0 miles12
Uno11.2 miles10
Wiley Crossing12.6 miles13
Hydrick12.6 miles13
Whitehall12.7 miles13

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 FisherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2118245The 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 57752. 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.