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La Grange, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72352. The Survey maps it on the La Grange quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

La Grange within Lee County

Population over time

3 figures

La Grange fell from 122 to 52 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
2000122
201089-33 (-27%)
202052-37 (-42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of La Grange between 1993 and 2015, burning about 237 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 August 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR CREEK POWERLINE
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHANNON
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSIMMONS
4 March 2006Arson/incendiarism35 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTHIRD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Grange in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
March 2020Flash FloodLa Grange$25,000Lee County Road 215 closed due to a washout between County Road 242 and County Road 248.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Cypress Corner1.9 miles12
Rondo4.7 miles12
Phillips Bayou5.0 miles16
Oakwood5.1 miles16
Jeffersonville5.4 miles16
Scott Valley5.4 miles12
Haleside5.9 miles16
Vineyard7.3 miles12

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 La GrangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660603The 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 77422. 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.