Hickory Ridge, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Hickory Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72347. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Ridge quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHickory Ridge fell from 272 to 228 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 | 272 | |
| 2020 | 228 | -44 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1939 USGS Vanndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vanndale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hickory Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Hickory Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hickory Ridge in 2005, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Ridge in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | 1 killed, $75,000 | One man was killed in Wynne when a tree fell onto his mobile home crushing the home. An awning was blown off of a building in Vanndale. Several other businesses were damaged. Several trees and power poles were knocked down. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Hickory Ridge | $914,000 | Approximately seven inches of rain produced flash flooding across Northern Cross County. Highways 42 and 193 and multiple county roads were flooded near Hickory Ridge. One home suffered minor flood damage near Hickory Ridge. The CO-OP was completely flooded. Highways 1 and 42 were flooded near Cherry Valley. A culvert on an unnamed county road was washed out leaving four families stranded. One home had minor flood damage near Cherry Valley. |
| March 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Hickory Ridge | $750,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Hickory Ridge | $30,000 | A tornado developed southeast of Hickory Ridge and moved north-northwest through town. An airplane hangar was damaged west of County Road 259. The tornado damaged trees and several roofs and awnings as it moved through Hickory Ridge. The tornado dissipated just northwest of town. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $10,000 | Some trees and power lines were knocked down in Hickory Ridge. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $10,000 | Many trees were knocked down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $5,000 | Straight line winds resulted in minor damage to a couple of homes in the Hickory Ridge area. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | $5,000 | Some power lines were blown down. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $5,000 | Some car windows were broken. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $2,000 | A few cars were damaged by the hail. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $750 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $100 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Hickory Ridge | $50 | A tornado briefly touched down near Hickory Ridge producing little damage. While the tornado produced little damage, the storm killed hundreds of geese who were killed by the winds and hail accompanying the tornado. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hickory Ridge | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | - | Straight line winds knocked down multiple trees and power lines in Hickory Ridge. A few cars and structures were damaged by falling trees and a roof was blown off a commercial business in Hickory Ridge. Multiple power poles were knocked down on Highway 1 north of Cherry Valley. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge | - | Straight line winds resulted in minor tree damage in Hickory Ridge. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen (historical) | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Pittinger | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Tilton | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wrape (historical) | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Fair Field | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Central | 10.6 miles | 12 | |
| Fair Oaks | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hamlin | 11.8 miles | 12 |
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 Hickory Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q80164 | 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 77174. 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.






