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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.

Hazen within Prairie County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hazen 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,468
20201,481+13 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2015

Regional 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 burning1

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
17 October 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

44 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHazen$50,000Social 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 2010Thunderstorm WindHazen$50,000Trees were blown down, flagpoles were snapped, and several homes were damaged in Hazen.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHazen$50,000Several trees were blown down and some roofs were damaged.
May 1997LightningHazen$30,000Lightning struck a house which resulted in a fire. The fire spread from the attic area and eventually destroyed much of the house.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHazen$10,000Trees were down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHazen$10,000Several 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindHazen$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHazen$3,000Trees were blown down.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHazen$2,000A tree was blown down on U.S. Highway 63 near Hazen.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHazen-Trees were reported down all around Prairie County. A power line was down on Hwy. 302 in Hazen.
April 2017Flash FloodHazen-Water was running on city streets.
May 2013Funnel CloudHazen-A funnel cloud was photographed near Hazen.
September 2013Heavy RainHazen-Rainfall amounts included 3.26 inches at Brasfield and 3.18 inches at Des Arc.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen-Winds were estimated at 65 mph.
September 2007Flash FloodHazen-Arkansas Highway 11 near Hazen was impassable due to high water over the road.
December 2002Tornado (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 2002Thunderstorm WindHazen-Some large tree limbs were knocked down.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindHazen-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
May 2001HailHazen-Hail up to nickel size caused damage to some crops around Hazen.
February 2000Tornado (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 1995HailHazen-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHazen-Some power lines were blown down.
April 2018HailHazen-no account filed
September 2011HailHazen-no account filed
March 2008HailHazen-no account filed
November 2006HailHazen-no account filed
March 2005HailHazen-no account filed
December 2001Flash FloodHazen-no account filed
February 2000HailHazen-no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F2)Hazen-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
April 1998HailHazen-no account filed
April 1998HailHazen-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
June 1995HailHazen-no account filed
June 1995HailHazen-no account filed
July 1995HailHazen-no account filed
June 1994HailHazen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Cuneo (historical)2.7 miles15
Veits (historical)3.6 miles16
Thomas (historical)3.8 miles17
Siedenstricker3.9 miles16
Screeton4.6 miles15
Mesa4.6 miles17
Tarnceville4.8 miles17
Tollville4.9 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 HazenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2523382The 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.