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Morrison Bluff, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72863. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartman quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Morrison Bluff within Logan County

Population over time

3 figures

Morrison Bluff grew from 74 to 78 between 2000 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
200074
201064-10 (-14%)
202078+14 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Morrison Bluff between 1997 and 2017, burning about 208 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Morrison Bluff: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Arkansas Wild Rose Stone CoStone, DimensionPast Producer
Needham Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrison Bluff in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMorrison Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Scranton1.9 miles20
Tokalon3.1 miles20
Dublin3.5 miles20
Prairie View3.7 miles20
Johnson5.0 miles20
Geren (historical)5.6 miles20
Pleasant Hill5.7 miles20
Plainview6.0 miles20

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 Morrison BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660349The 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 79144. 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.