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Lexa, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72355. The Survey maps it on the Lexa quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.

Lexa within Phillips County

On record in Lexa

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lexa fell from 286 to 207 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
2010286
2020207-79 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lexa between 1998 and 2015, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning2
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
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
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
12 February 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 November 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 October 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexa in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLexa$30,000Straight-line winds damaged an outbuilding on Highway 242. A mobile home was pushed off block piers and two homes suffered roof damage along Highway 242.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLexa$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Lexa.
April 1998HailLexa$750no account filed
March 2001HailLexa$10no account filed
May 2022HailLexa-Quarter-sized hail observed in Lexa.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLexa-Straight line winds blew several trees down in Lexa.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLexa-Straight line winds knocked down a few trees in Lexa.
May 2024HailLexa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Lexa Junction0.8 miles13
North Lexa0.9 miles13
Latour1.6 miles16
Blackfoot2.5 miles13
North Creek (historical)3.0 miles13
Walnut Corner3.1 miles13
Edgewood3.1 miles12
Wycamp3.6 miles16

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 LexaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80150The 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 58063. 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.