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.
Population over time
2 figuresFisher 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -43 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Vanndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vanndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hickory Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Hickory Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 1999 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this place
20 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Fisher | $150,000 | Heavy 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $75,000 | Sixteen power-poles in a row snapped and a metal barn blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $75,000 | Two 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $50,000 | Wind damage to a power sub station. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $25,000 | Broken wood cross member on an electrical transmission line. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $10,000 | Trees and powerlines downed near Prairie Road. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $10,000 | Two homes suffered minor damage. A few trees were uprooted. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $5,000 | Straight line winds blew telephone poles down on Route 214 3 miles east of Fisher. |
| March 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Fisher | $5,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $2,000 | Straight line winds knocked down power poles on Arkansas State Highway 214. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Fisher | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Fisher | $750 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | Estimated 70 mph gust. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Fisher | - | Highway 214 closed due to flooding from Highway 49 in Fisher to Longview Lane. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Fisher. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | Straight line winds blew several trees and power lines down between Fisher and Waldenburg along Highway 49. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Fisher | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brushey Lake | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Waldenburg | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Weiner | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| McDaniel | 11.0 miles | 12 | |
| Uno | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wiley Crossing | 12.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hydrick | 12.6 miles | 13 | |
| Whitehall | 12.7 miles | 13 |
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 Fisher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2118245 | 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 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.






