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Knoxville, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Howell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72845. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle. 660 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Knoxville within Johnson County

Population over time

3 figures

Knoxville grew from 511 to 660 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
2000511
2010731+220 (+43%)
2020660-71 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Knoxville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Knoxville: 6 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Unk Gravel Quarries 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 3StoneProspect
UnknownStoneUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knoxville in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down. Tin was peeled off an old chicken house. A billboard was blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$20,000Numerous trees were downed, with at least one tree on a house.
July 2014Flash FloodKnoxville$20,000Two houses were evacuated due to high water.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Multiple trees knocked down in Knoxville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Multiple trees fell across the town of Knoxville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Multiple trees down in Knoxville.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Trees were blown down in Knoxville.
June 2019Flash FloodKnoxville-Flash flooding was reported in the city of Knoxville in Johnson County.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Trees were uprooted or snapped off. Several homes had roof damage. The roofs of several buildings were damaged, including that of an elementary school. Several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Strong winds snapped several limbs off a tree.
May 2007Flash FloodKnoxville-Water was reported over old Highway 64.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Knoxville-An F0 tornado touched down on the southwest side of the town of Knoxville. The tornado moved to the northeast and quickly lifted about 0.20 of a mile northeast of Knoxville. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado was several trees that were blown down. A couple of outbuildings were also destroyed.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-Thunderstorm winds tore part of the roof off a chicken house.
April 2004HailKnoxville-no account filed
January 2002HailKnoxville-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-no account filed
March 1998HailKnoxville-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindKnoxville-no account filed
April 1993HailKnoxville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Garrett1.6 miles19
Knoxville Junction2.1 miles20
Bend2.3 miles20
Hickeytown3.2 miles19
Piney3.3 miles19
Lamar4.2 miles20
Jamestown6.7 miles20
Spadra7.5 miles20

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 KnoxvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79289The 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 58027. 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.