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Osceola, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72370. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle. 6,976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Osceola within Mississippi County

On record in Osceola

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 12 of 13 shown

Every listing in Mississippi County

Population over time

2 figures

Osceola fell from 7,757 to 6,976 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
20107,757
20206,976-781 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Osceola in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning1

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
3 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryYANKEE BAR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Osceola: 1 past producer. None of them 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOsceola$75,000A hotel had its metal roof torn off and had its doors blown off. Several cars were damaged near the hotel. One business had its plate glass window demolished. Another business had two buildings damaged. Several power lines and power poles were blown down.
June 2025Flash FloodOsceola$50,000Some roads were flooded in Osceola. A home was inundated with two feet of water.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000Six power poles and some trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000An abandoned 500-foot tall commercial television tower collapsed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2008HailOsceola$8,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Power poles were broken at the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 325.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Osceola.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000A roof was blown off of a trailer home.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000A couple of houses were damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. Two buildings received roof and other structural damage.
January 2008HailOsceola$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailOsceola$5,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000no account filed
January 2008HailOsceola$3,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000A few trees were knocked down across the road.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Osceola$2,000A tornado touched down blowing several trees down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000A few trees were blown down across a road.
May 2003Flash FloodOsceola$1,000Three inches of rain fell in one hour. A few roads were flooded with at least 6 inches of water on them.
April 2006HailOsceola$1,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOsceola$500Large tree blown down in church parking lot.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOsceola$500Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 1998HailOsceola$150Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell in Osceola.
March 2005HailOsceola$110no account filed
July 1996HailOsceola$100no account filed
May 1995HailOsceola$100no account filed
April 2004HailOsceola$60no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Metal roof blown off a building on West Keiser Ave in Osceola.
April 2022HailOsceola-Hail measured at 2 inches in Osceola.
October 2022HailOsceola-Measured hail of 1.00 inch fell at the Osceola Police Headquarters.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Trees damaged and power lines down near Mockingbird Lane.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Osceola.
July 2009Flash FloodOsceola-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the vicinity of Osceola. Some back roads became impassable. A couple of county employees were unable to leave their houses in Osceola due to flooding.
June 1994HailOsceola-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles.
April 2020HailOsceola-no account filed
April 2020HailOsceola-no account filed
May 2018HailOsceola-no account filed
May 2012HailOsceola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Moran2.5 miles10
New Salem3.6 miles9
Sans Souci3.7 miles10
Luxora4.2 miles9
Cottonwood Corner4.4 miles9
Grider4.6 miles10
Wolverton (historical)5.1 miles9
Rotan5.6 miles10

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 OsceolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80031The 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 77931. 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.