New Blaine, Arkansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72851. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Blaine quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 348 feet above sea level.
On record in New Blaine
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 8 records
Anhalt Barnlisted 1993
Arkansas Highway 22, Oldlisted 2003
Elizabeth Halllisted 1976
Farmer's State Banklisted 2002
Freeborn T. Lasater Houselisted 2002
Main Street Bridgelisted 2002
New Blaine Schoollisted 1992
Troy Lasater Service Stationlisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresNew Blaine fell from 174 to 173 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 | 174 | |
| 2020 | 173 | -1 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1888 USGS Dardanelle #2 quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS New Blaine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS New Blaine quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of New Blaine between 1998 and 2018, burning about 720 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | REDS FIRE |
| 19 September 2006 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BROCK #2 |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 262 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BROCK CREEK |
| 7 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of New Blaine: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Blaine in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | $5,000 | A tree was blown down and damaged the metal roofing on two buildings. |
| April 2022 | Hail | New Blaine | $2,000 | Tennis ball hail was reported. Multiple storm chasers had windshields damaged. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | $2,000 | A large oak tree was blown down. |
| September 2025 | Flash Flood | New Blaine | - | A few county roads in the vicinity of New Blaine were flooded and impassable. |
| April 2022 | Hail | New Blaine | - | Baseball to softball size hail was reported at New Blaine. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Sporadic tree damage occurred with associated power outages in eastern Logan County. |
| June 2012 | Hail | New Blaine | - | Hail from quarter to golf ball size fell. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F1) | New Blaine | - | A weak tornado was spawned in eastern Logan County a little more than a mile west of New Blaine. As the tornado touched down, it tore the roof off of a porch and threw it into a creek 75 yards away. About 4 miles southeast of New Blaine, an uprooted tree raised up the end of a house trailer. Another tree fell on two pickup trucks, with a shed destroyed. The tornado eventually tracked into northern Yell County. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Some large tree limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, damaged some roofs, and knocked down some trees. |
| April 2014 | Hail | New Blaine | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | New Blaine | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | New Blaine | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Blaine | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New Blaine | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Blaine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Scholastica | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Sommer (historical) | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Liberty | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Shoal Creek | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Johnson | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Shady Grove | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Midway | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| Dublin | 5.7 miles | 20 |
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 New Blaine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q944084 | 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 77809. 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.









