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Holly Grove, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Duncan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72069. The Survey maps it on the Holly Grove quadrangle. 460 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 179 feet above sea level.

Holly Grove within Monroe County

On record in Holly Grove

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 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Holly Grove fell from 722 to 460 between 2000 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
2000722
2010602-120 (-17%)
2020460-142 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Holly Grove between 1999 and 2019, burning about 826 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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 2000Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning173 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism155 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Smoking141 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionHOLLY GROVE
6 October 2004Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 October 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Grove in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 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 2009Flash FloodHolly Grove$75,000Houses were flooded along Arkansas Highway 146 roughly 5 miles southeast of Holly Grove.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$50,000Several trees were blown down onto houses.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$40,000Trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Some of the trees fell on houses.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$10,000Some trees were blown down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$10,000Large limbs were blown down, causing power outages.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew power lines down.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-Several trees were blown down in the community of Holly Grove, AR.
March 2016HailHolly Grove-Hail fell ranging in size from marbles to quarters.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-Trees were down on power lines and across roads in town.
April 2010HailHolly Grove-no account filed
April 2003HailHolly Grove-no account filed
May 2001HailHolly Grove-no account filed
October 2001HailHolly Grove-no account filed
June 1999HailHolly Grove-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-no account filed
April 1999Flash FloodHolly Grove-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindHolly Grove-no account filed
April 1995HailHolly Grove-no account filed
August 1993HailHolly Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Duncan3.2 miles16
Deep Elm4.2 miles14
Pine City4.7 miles14
Raymond (historical)5.7 miles14
Lawrenceville6.1 miles14
Ragtown6.1 miles14
Park Grove6.7 miles14
Perman (historical)6.9 miles14

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 Holly GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79280The 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 77202. 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.