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Louann, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71751. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louann quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Louann within Ouachita County

Population over time

2 figures

Louann fell from 164 to 153 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
2010164
2020153-11 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

186 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Louann between 1997 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined87
Arson/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louann in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2009: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Louann$150,000A tornado moved out of Union County and into Ouachita County just east-southeast of Louann. Roof damage occurred to a number of residences and the roof was torn off a mobile home. Hundreds of trees were blown down or snapped off, and power lines were blown down. The tornado exited Ouachita County northeast of Frenchport and continued into Calhoun County about 6 2/3 miles southwest of Locust Bayou.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindLouann$10,000There were trees down on an abandoned mobile home. Reports of pea size hail were received across county.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLouann$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
March 2008HailLouann-no account filed
March 2008HailLouann-no account filed
May 2007HailLouann-no account filed
May 2001HailLouann-no account filed
October 1996HailLouann-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Kirkland2.0 miles16
Liberty2.5 miles16
Cross Roads4.4 miles16
Elliott5.0 miles16
Frenchport5.6 miles16
Standard Umpstead6.3 miles17
Pace City6.4 miles15
Snow Hill7.3 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 LouannAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2515732The 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 58090. 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.