Jacksonport, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. It stands on Black River. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonport quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.
On record in Jacksonport
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 2 records
Jackson Guards Memoriallisted 1996
Jacksonport State Parklisted 1970
Population over time
2 figuresJacksonport fell from 212 to 150 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 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 150 | -62 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1935 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Jacksonport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
- 1966 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jacksonport in 2018, burning about 90 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonport: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport #5 & #7 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| County Operators | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Midstream Dredge & Plant No 6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mobley Construction Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Newport Dredge & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Newport Plt | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| River S&G Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| River Sand & Gravel Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonport in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 flood, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 30 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Jacksonport | 1 killed, 30 hurt, $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Flood | Jacksonport | $150,000 | After only a day below flood stage, the White River at the Newport gage rose again to major flood level by the 12th of the month, and remained above the major flood level for more than three days. The river fell below flood stage on the 22nd of the month. The April crest of 33.16 feet was the third highest since the flood control reservoirs were completed in the middle of the twentieth century. Damages were limited to whatever repairs had been made since the March crest. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Jacksonport | $5,000 | Areal flooding in Jackson County finally diminished after the Black, White, and Cache Rivers receded. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport in late March. |
| February 2023 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain in the early part of February brought flooding to the White River at Newport. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport in early to mid May. |
| November 2021 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 2021 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on May 1, 2021. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on February 20. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on February 12. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport May 11 and 12. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain caused flooding during the latter part of May on the White River at Newport. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rain from April caused flooding that continued into May on the White River at Newport. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | While the stage of the White River did not exceed flood stage at Newport, over bank flooding caused the destruction of thousands of acres of a young soybean crop. A stage in excess of 12 feet begins to break out into row crops and 16 to 21 feet covers a large area of the flood plain. Stages at Newport varied from 14 to 23 feet during the month of May. As many as 30,000 acres could have been impacted with crop plantings delayed or young crops destroyed. |
| June 2009 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rainfall in May pushed the White River out of its banks in May and the impacts to agriculture lingered into early June. Planted crops were destroyed and planting of additional acreage was delayed. |
| October 2009 | Flood | Jacksonport | - | Heavy rainfall at the end of October pushed the White River at Newport above flood stage. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in Jacksonport. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fitzgerald | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Reamey | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Diaz | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Newport | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Crossroads | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Macks | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Campbell Station | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Island Town | 5.0 miles | 13 |
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 Jacksonport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2016620 | 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 77360. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






