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Garland, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Red River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71839. The Survey maps it on the Garland quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Garland within Miller County

On record in Garland

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

Garland fell from 242 to 195 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
2010242
2020195-47 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Garland between 1999 and 2019, burning about 237 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use148 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMIL14964061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller 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 Garland: 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garland in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 2 lightning. 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
June 2007LightningGarland$100,000A lightning strike hit a home in Garland city burning the home to the ground. There were no residents home at the time.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindGarland$50,000Thunderstorm winds resulted in reports of damage to an airplane hanger and roof damage to a few homes in the Garland community. A few trees were also downed and the top of a grain silo was blown down.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGarland$50,000Numerous trees were blown down and several roofs were damaged.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGarland$10,000Damage to 25 homes varying from roof to carport damage. Numerous powerlines toppled. Ten county roads blocked by toppled trees.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindGarland-Several trees and power lines were blown down across the eastern portions of Miller County, including in the Garland community.
February 2013Tornado (EF0)Garland-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and concluded that a brief EF0 tornado touched down 4 miles southwest of Garland, Arkansas. Storm damage consisted of several snapped hard wood branches with one small hard wood tree snapped along HWY 134.
October 2010HailGarland-Hail fell in the Garland City community.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGarland-Trees were downed in Garland, Arkansas.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGarland-Trees and powerlines were downed along Hwy. 196 and Hwy. 134.
August 2005LightningGarland-Lightning started a woods fire in Genoa.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGarland-Several trees downed in town and in Genoa.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGarland-Numerous trees down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGarland-Numerous trees and powerlines were toppled resulting in local power outages.
November 2005HailGarland-no account filed
September 2001HailGarland-no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F0)Garland-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindGarland-no account filed
January 1994HailGarland-no account filed
May 1994HailGarland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Mayton1.7 miles15
Beck3.7 miles15
McKinney4.9 miles15
Artex6.7 miles15
Rocky Mound9.4 miles15
Hervey10.0 miles15
Genoa10.7 miles15
Dooley10.7 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 GarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660335The 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 76999. 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.