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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.

Hickory Ridge within Cross County

Population over time

2 figures

Hickory 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.

YearPeople Change
2010272
2020228-44 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 2005

Regional 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 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
11 November 2005Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge1 killed, $75,000One 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 2013Flash FloodHickory Ridge$914,000Approximately 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 1997Tornado (F3)Hickory Ridge$750,000no account filed
August 2020Tornado (EF1)Hickory Ridge$30,000A 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 2006Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$10,000Some trees and power lines were knocked down in Hickory Ridge.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$10,000Many trees were knocked down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$10,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$10,000no account filed
February 2008Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$5,000Straight line winds resulted in minor damage to a couple of homes in the Hickory Ridge area.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge$5,000Some power lines were blown down.
April 2001HailHickory Ridge$5,000Some car windows were broken.
April 2006HailHickory Ridge$5,000no account filed
January 1999HailHickory Ridge$2,000A few cars were damaged by the hail.
July 2005HailHickory Ridge$750no account filed
March 2005HailHickory Ridge$100no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Hickory Ridge$50A 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 1998HailHickory Ridge$50no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHickory 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHickory Ridge-Straight line winds resulted in minor tree damage in Hickory Ridge.

Every storm recorded in Cross 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
Aberdeen (historical)2.5 miles10
Pittinger3.1 miles12
Tilton5.6 miles10
Wrape (historical)8.8 miles10
Fair Field10.3 miles11
Central10.6 miles12
Fair Oaks10.8 miles11
Hamlin11.8 miles12

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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80164The 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.