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Havana, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Riley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72842. It stands on Truett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Havana quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Havana within Yell County

Population over time

3 figures

Havana fell from 392 to 239 between 2000 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
2000392
2010375-17 (-4%)
2020239-136 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Havana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 591 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Smoking3
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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCEDAR CREEK
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresOuachita National ForestKIRKWOOD
3 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Havana in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHavana$150,000Numerous trees and some power lines were blown down. At least one tree fell on a house.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHavana$20,000A roof was blown to the side of a building in Havana.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHavana$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2009FloodHavana$10,000Heavy rainfall pushed the Petit Jean River above flood stage during the middle of September. Pastures and some county roads were impacted by the high river stages.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHavana$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHavana-Trees and power lines were knocked down.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindHavana-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
October 2009FloodHavana-Heavy rainfall pushed the Petit Jean River above flood stage at the end of October.
November 2009FloodHavana-Heavy rainfall at the end of October allowed the Petit Jean River at Danville to remain above flood stage into the beginning of November.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHavana-Several trees were blown down at Havana.
April 2015HailHavana-no account filed
April 2011HailHavana-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHavana-no account filed
January 2002HailHavana-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHavana-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindHavana-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHavana-no account filed
July 1997HailHavana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Marvinville1.2 miles18
Walnut Grove4.1 miles18
Riley Creek (historical)4.4 miles17
Belleville4.5 miles17
Hickory Grove4.6 miles18
Waveland5.3 miles20
Corinth5.9 miles17
Crossroads6.0 miles18

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 HavanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79644The 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 71938. 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.