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Hancock, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72419. The Survey maps it on the Caraway quadrangle.

Hancock within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hancock in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHancock$15,000Broken power poles along HWY 139 S.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHancock-Trees and powerlines downed north of Caraway.

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Hancock Junction1.5 miles10
Cottonwood Corner2.1 miles10
Caraway3.3 miles10
Mangrum3.4 miles10
Waco (historical)4.2 miles11
Black Oak4.6 miles10
Lepanto Junction4.8 miles11
Degelow5.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77112. 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.

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.