O'Kean, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in O'Kean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72449. The Survey maps it on the O'Kean quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresO'Kean fell from 201 to 192 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 201 | |
| 2010 | 194 | -7 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 192 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1932 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS O'Kean quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1968 USGS Walnut Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of O'Kean between 2002 and 2007, burning about 187 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 96 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 January 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Kean in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | O Kean | $5,000 | A few power lines were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | O Kean | - | Several trees blown down in the town of O'Kean. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharum | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fender | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Skaggs | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lesterville | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Elnora | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Manson | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Shannon | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hoover Landing | 9.4 miles | 12 |
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 O'Kean | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3317128 | 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 77867. 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.
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.







