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Highland, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72542. The Survey maps it on the Stuart quadrangle. 982 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Highland within Sharp County

Population over time

2 figures

Highland fell from 1,045 to 982 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
20101,045
2020982-63 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

123 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,655 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 47 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
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2001Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 1997Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 May 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHighland$25,000Many trees were blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHighland$10,000Power lines were blown down in the area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHighland$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down large limbs.
May 2025HailHighland-Half dollar sized hail fell near Hidden Valley.
May 2025HailHighland-Quarter sized hail was estimated to have fallen in Highland.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHighland-Some power lines were blown down.
April 2006HailHighland-no account filed
September 2003Flash FloodHighland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Hidden Valley0.6 miles10
Stuart0.9 miles10
Cherokee Village1.6 miles10
Draft (historical)2.4 miles10
Hardy3.5 miles8
Canton (historical)3.7 miles8
Ash Flat5.7 miles9
Kings Mills (historical)5.7 miles9

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 HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79256The 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 1838966. 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.