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Greenland, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Greenland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72701. It stands on Ward Slough. The Survey maps it on the West Fork quadrangle. 1,213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Greenland within Washington County

On record in Greenland

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

Greenland fell from 1,259 to 1,213 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
20101,259
20201,213-46 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Greenland between 1998 and 2020, burning about 136 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2010Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Greenland: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dr.Ray Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
West Fork Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenland in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 8 hail, 1 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenland$100Thunderstorm winds blew a few large trees down.
February 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
May 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
June 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
May 2006HailGreenland-no account filed
April 2004HailGreenland-no account filed
March 1998HailGreenland-no account filed
June 1997HailGreenland-no account filed
April 1996HailGreenland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Fayette Junction3.3 miles19
McNair3.9 miles19
Appleby4.2 miles19
Fayetteville4.8 miles19
West Fork4.9 miles17
Walnut Grove4.9 miles18
Farmington5.0 miles19
Black Oak5.1 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 GreenlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79241The 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 77072. 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.