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McNeil, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2000. It stands in McNeil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71752. It stands on O'Rear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

McNeil within Columbia County

On record in McNeil

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

Population over time

2 figures

McNeil fell from 516 to 381 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
2010516
2020381-135 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

97 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of McNeil between 1998 and 2019, burning about 780 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McNeil: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
Lambert & Barr,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McNeil in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1993Thunderstorm WindMcNeil-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Emon1.6 miles14
Magnesia Springs1.9 miles14
College Hill4.0 miles13
Saint Matthews4.3 miles13
Milner (historical)4.4 miles13
Warnock Springs4.5 miles14
Shiloh4.5 miles13
Waldo4.6 miles13

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 McNeilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79600The 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 58155. 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.