Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lucas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72348. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Lake quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHorseshoe Lake fell from 292 to 264 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 | 292 | |
| 2020 | 264 | -28 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 19 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.
- 1931 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Horseshoe Lake NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Horseshoe Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe Lake between 1996 and 1999, burning about 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 March 1996 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horseshoe Lake in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| January 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | $3,000 | Report of a tree down and some metal roofing peeled back on barn. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $1,000 | Several cars were dented by hail. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | $500 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $50 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| March 2001 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $10 | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Horseshoe Lake | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | - | Straight line winds knocked trees down near Horseshoe Lake. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | - | Straight line winds blew several trees and power lines down in the Horseshoe Lake area. Approximately, 700 people were without power during the peak outage. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horseshoe Lake | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees near Horseshoe Lake. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Horseshoe Lake | - | Heavy rain produced street flooding in Horseshoe Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seyppel | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Thompson Grove | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Bruins | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Pinckney | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Beck | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Highland Farm | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Irby (historical) | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Thompson | 6.5 miles | 11 |
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 Horseshoe Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2660638 | 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 1669459. 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.












