Magness, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Magness Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72553. It stands on Waldrip Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.
On record in Magness
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 1 record
Big Botton Slough Bridgelisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresMagness grew from 202 to 220 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 | 202 | |
| 2020 | 220 | +18 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1935 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
- 1966 USGS Newport quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Magness between 1999 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 April 2001 | Smoking | 16 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Magness: 9 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| River Sand & Gravel Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magness in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magness | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magness | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Magness | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Magness | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magness | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Magness | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Akron (historical) | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Rutherford | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Zion | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Sulphur Rock | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Mount Carmel | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Rosie | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Maple Springs | 4.9 miles | 17 |
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 Magness | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928132 | 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 51603. 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.







