Hazen, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hazen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72064. The Survey maps it on the Hazen quadrangle. 1,481 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.
On record in Hazen
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
Kocourek and Son Hardwarelisted 2015
Rock Island Depotlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresHazen grew from 1,468 to 1,481 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,468 | |
| 2020 | 1,481 | +13 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Hazen quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Hazen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hazen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Hazen quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Hazen quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hazen in 2015, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
44 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazen in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 21 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 tornado, 3 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $50,000 | Social media showed a picture of a tree that was blown onto an Airstream trailer, significantly damaging the trailer. No injuries were reported. Time is based on radar data. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $50,000 | Trees were blown down, flagpoles were snapped, and several homes were damaged in Hazen. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $50,000 | Several trees were blown down and some roofs were damaged. |
| May 1997 | Lightning | Hazen | $30,000 | Lightning struck a house which resulted in a fire. The fire spread from the attic area and eventually destroyed much of the house. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $10,000 | Trees were down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down. One of the trees fell on a shed. A tree fell at the intersection of U.S. Highway 70 and Livermore. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew trees down. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | $2,000 | A tree was blown down on U.S. Highway 63 near Hazen. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | Trees were reported down all around Prairie County. A power line was down on Hwy. 302 in Hazen. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Hazen | - | Water was running on city streets. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Hazen | - | A funnel cloud was photographed near Hazen. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Hazen | - | Rainfall amounts included 3.26 inches at Brasfield and 3.18 inches at Des Arc. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | Winds were estimated at 65 mph. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Hazen | - | Arkansas Highway 11 near Hazen was impassable due to high water over the road. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Hazen | - | A weak tornado touched down 1.2 miles southeast of Hazen and tracked to the northeast for 2 miles before lifting. Two residences suffered damage from fallen trees. A carport and a small shed were destroyed. Two mobile homes where damaged. A few trees were also blown down, as was a billboard. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | Some large tree limbs were knocked down. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hazen | - | Hail up to nickel size caused damage to some crops around Hazen. |
| February 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Hazen | - | A strong tornado that was spawned in Lonoke County moved into Prairie County, crossing the county line about 7.5 miles northwest of Hazen. Not long after entering the county, the tornado damaged or destroyed a couple of barns and several shop buildings in the Center Point community on Arkansas Highway 249. In the same area, a mobile home was knocked off of its foundation, a home was badly damaged by a fallen tree, and shingles were removed from several roofs. The tornado began weakening as it headed into the Wattensaw Wildlife Management Area, where some tree damage was found. The tornado dissipated about 1.7 miles west of Biscoe. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Hazen | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | Some power lines were blown down. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hazen | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuneo (historical) | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Veits (historical) | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Thomas (historical) | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Siedenstricker | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Screeton | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Mesa | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Tarnceville | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Tollville | 4.9 miles | 16 |
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 Hazen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2523382 | The 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 49971. 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.











