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Oden, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71961. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oden quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Oden within Montgomery County

Population over time

3 figures

Oden fell from 220 to 180 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.

YearPeople Change
2000220
2010232+12 (+5%)
2020180-52 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Oden between 1992 and 2019, burning about 609 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism39
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestFIDDLER #2
29 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresOuachita National ForestBRUSHY CREEK
30 August 1997Debris and open burning7.5 acresOuachita National ForestSIMS
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRILEY #1
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRILEY #2
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRILEY # 3
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRILEY # 4
28 August 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oden: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Barium-Barite. 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
Hoyt-Williams ProspectBarium-BariteUnknown
Magic Presance MineQuartzPast Producer1986, 1987
Mcgrew MineQuartzProducer1986, 1988
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oden in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOden$10,000Trees were blown down and trampolines were blown up into trees.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindOden-Trees were blown down across Brushy Creek Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindOden-A barn was damaged and a tree was blown down onto a house on Ridge Rd.
April 2022HailOden-Pea to dime size hail was reported northwest of Pencil Bluff.
September 2020Heavy RainOden-The Oden RAWS sited measured 5.13 inches of rain since midnight.
March 2019HailOden-This was relayed from the local fire department.
April 2018Tornado (EF0)Oden-A brief tornado was witnessed by Law Enforcement west of Pencil Bluff, or northwest of Oden in western Montgomery County. A cooperative observer also noted several trees down in the area of a shooting range in the Ouachita National Forest property nearby.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOden-Several trees were blown down on Hwy 270.
August 2014Heavy RainOden-Rainfall measured 1.71 inches in two hours.
September 2009Heavy RainOden-Oden broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of September.
March 2004Flash FloodOden-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in and around Oden. Several roads and low water crossings were impassible for a few hours due to high water levels.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOden-Thunderstorm winds blew over a storage building at Oden.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOden-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a farm building. Several buildings also sustained roof damage.
April 2022HailOden-no account filed
April 2009HailOden-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOden-no account filed
November 2005HailOden-no account filed
March 2004HailOden-no account filed
April 2003HailOden-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodOden-no account filed
April 1998HailOden-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Hog Jaw1.7 miles15
Whitetown1.8 miles15
Pencil Bluff2.4 miles15
Huddleston4.3 miles15
Gaston5.1 miles15
Sims5.3 miles15
Chasewood Landing5.6 miles15
Mauldin6.1 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 OdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2785382The 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 72920. 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.