Morrow, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Morrow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72717. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.
On record in Morrow
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 2 records
Twin Bridges Historic Districtlisted 1994- Morrow Farmsteadlisted 2021
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Morrow between 1996 and 2017, burning about 478 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morrow: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrow in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour rolled over a mobile home and did damage to poultry buildings. This damage was originally thought to be associated with a tornado but a storm survey team determined it was due to the rear flank downdraft of the supercell storm that produced a tornado northeast of Strickler a few minutes later. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Morrow | - | Heavy rain caused secondary roads near Morrow to be flooded. A man had to be rescued when his truck was swept off a low water crossing. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | - | Thunderstorm wnds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Morrow | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skylight | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Clyde | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Dutch Mills | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Canehill | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Tolu | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Evansville | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Sexton (historical) | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Floss | 6.0 miles | 16 |
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 Morrow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6914200 | 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 72735. 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.







