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.
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
Bank of Osceolalisted 1987
City Halllisted 1987
Florida Brothers Buildinglisted 1987
Hale Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1987
Hale Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2003
Hale Avenue Historic District Boundary Increase IIlisted 2008
Minaret Manorlisted 2017
Mississippi County Courthouselisted 1978
Mississippi County Jaillisted 1987
Osceola Times Buildinglisted 1987
Violet Cemeterylisted 2004- Old Bell Telephone Buildinglisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresOsceola 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,757 | |
| 2020 | 6,976 | -781 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1956 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1972 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Blytheville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional 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 burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | YANKEE BAR FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
40 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $75,000 | A 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 2025 | Flash Flood | Osceola | $50,000 | Some roads were flooded in Osceola. A home was inundated with two feet of water. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $10,000 | Six power poles and some trees were blown down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $10,000 | An abandoned 500-foot tall commercial television tower collapsed due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Osceola | $8,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | Power poles were broken at the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 325. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Osceola. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | A roof was blown off of a trailer home. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | A couple of houses were damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. Two buildings received roof and other structural damage. |
| January 2008 | Hail | Osceola | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Osceola | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Osceola | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $2,000 | A few trees were knocked down across the road. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Osceola | $2,000 | A tornado touched down blowing several trees down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down across a road. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Osceola | $1,000 | Three inches of rain fell in one hour. A few roads were flooded with at least 6 inches of water on them. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Osceola | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $500 | Large tree blown down in church parking lot. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $500 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Osceola | $150 | Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell in Osceola. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Osceola | $110 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Osceola | $100 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Osceola | $100 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Osceola | $60 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | Metal roof blown off a building on West Keiser Ave in Osceola. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Osceola | - | Hail measured at 2 inches in Osceola. |
| October 2022 | Hail | Osceola | - | Measured hail of 1.00 inch fell at the Osceola Police Headquarters. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | Trees damaged and power lines down near Mockingbird Lane. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Osceola. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Osceola | - | 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 1994 | Hail | Osceola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moran | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| New Salem | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Sans Souci | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Luxora | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Cottonwood Corner | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Grider | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wolverton (historical) | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Rotan | 5.6 miles | 10 |
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 Osceola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q80031 | 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 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.






