Luxora, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fletcher Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72358. It stands on Mill Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Luxora quadrangle. 942 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLuxora fell from 1,178 to 942 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,178 | |
| 2020 | 942 | -236 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Luxora quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Luxora in 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | LONG HOLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Luxora: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stauffer Phosphate Deposit No.4 | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luxora in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Flood | Luxora | 1 killed | An elderly man drove his truck into flood waters when he lost control of the vehicle in the current causing the cab to fill with water. The passenger of the vehicle died as a result. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Luxora | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luxora | $5,000 | A service station suffered damage to its roof. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Luxora | $100 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Luxora | $100 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Luxora | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Luxora | - | A brief landspout tornado occurred over an open field near Highway 158 west of Luxora. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Luxora | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Highway 120 outside of Luxora. The highway was flooded as a result. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Luxora | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolverton (historical) | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Moran | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| New Salem | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Toluca | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Tuckertown | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Osceola | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Rosa | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Burdette | 4.3 miles | 9 |
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 Luxora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2688547 | The 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 58107. 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.






