BlockNumber Nine, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chickasawba Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72315. It stands on Crooked Lake Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Armorel quadrangle. It stands 259 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1939 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Armorel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1976 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Number Nine in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Number Nine | - | A brief landspout formed in an open field northeast of Blytheville. No damage was observed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huffman | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Armorel | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hickman | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Burton | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Yarbro | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Barfield | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Promised Land | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hickman Landing | 7.1 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 Number Nine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7069517 | 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 58281. 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.
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.