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Leslie, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wileys Cove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It stands on Begley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leslie quadrangle. 375 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Leslie within Searcy County

On record in Leslie

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 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in Searcy County

Population over time

2 figures

Leslie fell from 441 to 375 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
2010441
2020375-66 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,372 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning13
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2004Arson/incendiarism244 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leslie: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone. 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
J E FergusonPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2016Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000A roof was dislodged on a building and a few trees were blown over onto houses.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLeslie$10,000Several trees were blown down onto roads.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindLeslie$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew the metal roofing off several buildings in Leslie.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Some trees were blown over and there was damage to an awning.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a power line. One house sustained some minor roof damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Some large trees limbs were blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindLeslie-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 2015HailLeslie-no account filed
April 2011HailLeslie-no account filed
March 2010HailLeslie-no account filed
April 2006HailLeslie-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLeslie-no account filed
July 2004HailLeslie-no account filed
August 2003HailLeslie-no account filed
August 2003HailLeslie-no account filed
March 2003HailLeslie-no account filed
April 2002HailLeslie-no account filed
February 2001HailLeslie-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindLeslie-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLeslie-no account filed
January 1999HailLeslie-no account filed
May 1997HailLeslie-no account filed
June 1996HailLeslie-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindLeslie-no account filed
June 1995HailLeslie-no account filed
April 1994HailLeslie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Wileys Cove1.0 miles15
Noahs1.1 miles15
Elberta3.3 miles15
Rumley3.7 miles15
Begley (historical)4.0 miles15
Campbell5.2 miles15
Shilo (historical)5.3 miles15
Oxley5.4 miles15

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 LeslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79597The 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 77477. 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.