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Oakhaven, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ozan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71801. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Oakhaven within Hempstead County

On record in Oakhaven

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Oakhaven grew from 63 to 65 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.

YearPeople Change
201063
202065+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Oakhaven between 1997 and 2019, burning about 238 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning9
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oakhaven: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Hope PitClayProducer
Hempstead CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lavender PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakhaven in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Oakhaven$5,000An EF0 tornado with winds of 65 to 70 mph occurred on the northeast side of the town of Hope, Arkansas. The tornado touched down in a field southeast of Hwy 29 North. Several small trees and limbs were snapped. Damage consisted of a roof of a metal farm outbuilding just west of CR 248.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOakhaven-A tree was blown down onto a mobile home near the Oakhaven community.
April 2020HailOakhaven-Quarter size hail fell near the Oakhaven community.
June 2020HailOakhaven-Penny size hail fell near the Oakhaven community just north of Hope.
June 2020HailOakhaven-Penny size hail fell a couple of miles south of the Oakhaven community.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOakhaven-A tree was blown down along County Road 248 just northeast of Hope.
September 2008Flash FloodOakhaven-Numerous county roads were underwater due to excessive heavy rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Gustav. Some of these roads include County Roads 23, 39, 257, 51, 265, 27, 256 and 142.
September 2010HailOakhaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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
Dolph (historical)1.7 miles15
Magnolia Addition3.9 miles15
Hempstead Heights4.0 miles15
Frisco Addition4.3 miles15
Eastridge Addition4.4 miles15
Washington4.5 miles13
Hope4.6 miles15
De Ann4.6 miles15

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 OakhavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80185The 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 58292. 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.