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Knobel, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cache-Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72435. The Survey maps it on the Knobel quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.

Knobel within Clay County

On record in Knobel

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Knobel fell from 287 to 147 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
2010287
2020147-140 (-49%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Knobel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C Thomas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knobel in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 2018Tornado (EF2)Knobel1 killed, $500,000The one fatality was east of Knobel Arkansas near the intersection of Highway 90 and Highway 135 in a mobile home. A few homes, trees and power poles were damaged as the tornado tracked toward the St. Francis River. The path was intermittent. The tornado continued into Dunklin County.
January 1999Tornado (F4)Knobel$1,000,000The tornado started southeast of Knobel and tracked northeast. The most serious damage occurred early in the life of the tornado. Two homes were destroyed on County Road 238. Several other homes were damaged. Two trailer trucks were rolled over. As the tornado continued east it gradually diminished in intensity. Several trees and power lines were knocked down along the way.
March 2025Tornado (EF2)Knobel$250,000The tornado developed just east of Knobel, crossing Highway 90 and snapping several power poles. This tornado continued to track northeast, producing minor tree damage south and east of County Road 250. As the tornado approached the Walnut Grove community, it began to widen and intensify. Several outbuildings were destroyed at the intersection of County Road 250 and Highway 135. Eight wooden power poles were snapped along Highway 135. Just to the east of Highway 135, a large metal building structure was destroyed, a steel-reinforced awning was lifted and tossed, and several pieces of heavy farm machinery were overturned. The tornado gradually weakened as it moved northeast across open farmland, producing only sporadic, minor tree damage. A generator and pump were damaged just northwest of Hickoria with the tornado lifting near County Road 245. Peak winds were estimated at 135 mph.
April 2006HailKnobel$65,000no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Knobel$5,000The tornado started east of Knobel and continued northeast. The tornado may have come up and down several times. One home had damage to its roof and porch south of the town of Walnut Grove.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKnobel$2,000Straight line winds knocked down power lines on Highway 90, west of Highway 135, near Knobel.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindKnobel$1,000Straight line winds blew down some trees near Knobel.
April 2025Flash FloodKnobel-Portions of AR HWY 90 were closed due to high water.
June 2023HailKnobel-Quarter-size hail near Knobel.
June 2023HailKnobel-Half dollar size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 90 and Highway 135.
March 2025HailKnobel-no account filed
April 2021HailKnobel-no account filed
April 2020HailKnobel-no account filed
August 2009HailKnobel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Sellmeyer (historical)2.2 miles14
Luehrmann (historical)3.0 miles14
Cache Lake4.0 miles14
Peach Orchard4.3 miles14
Walnut Grove5.4 miles14
Heelstring5.4 miles14
Corning6.2 miles13
Brookings6.7 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 KnobelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2343517The 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 58025. 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.

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.