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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.

Horseshoe Lake within Crittenden County

Population over time

2 figures

Horseshoe 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.

YearPeople Change
2010292
2020264-28 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

2 since 1996

Regional 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
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
12 March 1996Smoking4.0 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake$5,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2008HailHorseshoe Lake$5,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake$3,000Report of a tree down and some metal roofing peeled back on barn.
April 1998HailHorseshoe Lake$1,000Several cars were dented by hail.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake$500Several trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1994HailHorseshoe Lake$50Several trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001HailHorseshoe Lake$10no account filed
February 2000HailHorseshoe Lake$10no account filed
April 2000HailHorseshoe Lake$10no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake-Straight line winds knocked trees down near Horseshoe Lake.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe 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 2009Thunderstorm WindHorseshoe Lake-Straight line winds knocked down trees near Horseshoe Lake.
May 2008Flash FloodHorseshoe Lake-Heavy rain produced street flooding in Horseshoe Lake.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Seyppel1.1 miles19
Thompson Grove2.9 miles19
Bruins2.9 miles19
Pinckney4.4 miles19
Beck4.7 miles19
Highland Farm5.5 miles19
Irby (historical)5.6 miles19
Thompson6.5 miles11

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660638The 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.