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Lowell, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72745. The Survey maps it on the Bentonville South quadrangle. 9,839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Lowell within Benton County

On record in Lowell

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lowell grew from 7,327 to 9,839 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
20107,327
20209,839+2,512 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lowell between 2001 and 2018, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBENTON 232
19 July 2012Natural22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBEN16095542
9 March 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Lowell: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 31 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell1 hurt, $3,500,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLowell$150,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged homes, destroyed outbuildings, blew down power poles, and uprooted trees in a broad swath from near Lowell to several miles east of Lowell.
April 2026HailLowell$50,000Hail up to two inches in diameter damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2021HailLowell$50,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses in Springdale.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLowell$40,000Strong thunderstorm wind severely damaged the roof of a mobile home, destroyed portable sheds, broke a large glass window of a business, damaged the roofs of homes, snapped large tree limbs, and blew down power lines.
April 2026HailLowell$30,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2021HailLowell$25,000Ping pong ball size hail damage vehicles, homes, and businesses near Springdale.
May 2011HailLowell$25,000no account filed
May 2009HailLowell$25,000no account filed
October 2009Flash FloodLowell$20,000Several roads were flooded and closed near Lowell. Flood water damaged 2 homes.
March 2015HailLowell$20,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$20,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLowell$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs, power poles, and power lines across town.
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
July 2018HailLowell$5,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$5,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLowell$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew down power lines in Lowell.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLowell$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLowell$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down. The tree fell on power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell$1,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLowell$500Several trees were blown down east of Lowell.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLowell$100Thunderstorm winds blew trees down onto a road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a road in northwest Lowell.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and snapped large tree limbs in the Bethel Heights area.
March 2015Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in Bethel Heights.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped or uprooted several trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs onto the roadway.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLowell-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLowell-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
April 2026HailLowell-no account filed
April 2025HailLowell-no account filed
October 2022HailLowell-no account filed
July 2018HailLowell-no account filed
July 2018HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
October 2014HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
September 2006HailLowell-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLowell-no account filed
April 1999HailLowell-no account filed
May 1995HailLowell-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Liberty (historical)1.4 miles18
Cross Hollow1.8 miles18
Vogel (historical)2.1 miles18
Accident2.4 miles19
Freeman (historical)2.6 miles17
Silent Grove2.8 miles18
Frisco2.8 miles18
Frisco Springs (historical)2.8 miles18

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 LowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79402The 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 77562. 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.