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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.

Luxora within Mississippi County

Population over time

2 figures

Luxora 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,178
2020942-236 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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 burning1

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 March 2017Debris and open burning12 acresTennessee Division of ForestryLONG HOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stauffer Phosphate Deposit No.4Phosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2011FloodLuxora1 killedAn 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 2006HailLuxora$15,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLuxora$5,000A service station suffered damage to its roof.
April 2005HailLuxora$100no account filed
July 2004HailLuxora$100no account filed
April 2001HailLuxora$10no account filed
June 2021Tornado (EF0)Luxora-A brief landspout tornado occurred over an open field near Highway 158 west of Luxora.
April 2008Flash FloodLuxora-Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Highway 120 outside of Luxora. The highway was flooded as a result.
March 2017HailLuxora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Wolverton (historical)1.1 miles9
Moran2.2 miles10
New Salem2.9 miles9
Toluca3.0 miles9
Tuckertown3.7 miles9
Osceola4.2 miles10
Rosa4.3 miles10
Burdette4.3 miles9

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 LuxoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2688547The 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.