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Oak Grove, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72802. The Survey maps it on the Moreland quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,230 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jack Duvall Quarry & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 1997Tornado (F1)Oak Grove1 hurt, $5,000,000no account filed
February 2019Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$50,000A chicken house and 3 barns were damaged between Hector and Atkins.
June 2009LightningOak Grove$10,000Seven horses were killed by lightning.
May 2025HailOak Grove-Golf ball sized hail was estimated to have fallen near Economy.
May 1998HailOak Grove-no account filed
February 1996HailOak Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Moreland2.2 miles17
Caglesville2.5 miles16
Buttermilk3.8 miles16
Rock Springs5.0 miles16
Economy5.4 miles17
Mars Hill6.1 miles17
Appleton6.4 miles18
Leta (historical)6.7 miles16

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 Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073486The 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 58285. 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.