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Genoa, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71854. It stands on Tennessee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mandeville quadrangle. 972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Genoa within Miller County

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

249 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Genoa between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,982 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 52 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
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism52
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism155 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Genoa: 28 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gemstone. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkGemstonePast Producer
F.P.Post PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genoa in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindGenoa$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and damaged two chicken houses.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindGenoa$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGenoa-Multiple trees were downed in Genoa.
March 2023HailGenoa-Quarter size hail reported in Genoa.
April 2019HailGenoa-Nickel to quarter size hail fell at the Genoa Grocery Store in the Genoa community.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGenoa-A large tree was blown down on County Road 17 in Eastern Miller County.
February 2018HailGenoa-A picture was posted to the KSLA Twitter page of quarter size hail that fell in Genoa.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGenoa-A tree was downed across Hwy. 196 just west of CR. 13 east southeast of Texarkana.
February 2013HailGenoa-Hail fell north of Fouke, Arkansas near Genoa.
June 2012HailGenoa-Quarter size hail was reported in Genoa, Arkansas.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGenoa-Numerous trees down across Hwy 196.
January 1999Tornado (F0)Genoa-Tornado track was through unpopulated wooded and farmland area.
November 1993HailGenoa-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
March 2008HailGenoa-no account filed
July 2002HailGenoa-no account filed
February 2001HailGenoa-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
Wona (historical)2.7 miles15
Boyd3.0 miles16
Lakewood Estates3.7 miles15
Mount Pleasant3.8 miles15
Gertrude4.0 miles15
Artex4.1 miles15
Ferguson Crossroads4.2 miles16
Sylverino4.9 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 GenoaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5533415The 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 49366. 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.