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Ozan, Arkansas

13 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 71855. The Survey maps it on the Washington quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Ozan within Hempstead County

On record in Ozan

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

Ozan fell from 85 to 50 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
201085
202050-35 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Ozan between 1997 and 2018, burning about 404 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning13
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 1999Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Natural25 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ozan: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Sample SiteClayPast Producer
Saratoga Chalk Mine & MillLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozan in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2009Flash FloodOzan$250,000Numerous county roads were underwater and closed, including County Roads 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 54, 333, 57, 198, 118 west, 50, 56, 189, 205, 254, 246, 243 and at Allen's Ferry Landing. Many of these roads were washed out.
November 1997Tornado (F1)Ozan$70,000OES chased a funnel cloud from just southeast of Alpine, southeastward across extreme eastern Howard County into Hempstead County. The funnel lowered throughout the chase until it touched down and was classified as a tornado 5.5 miles south of Nashville, AR. Damage initially consisted of broken and felled trees. The tornado then moved over cleared pastureland and intensified on CR318 between Hwy 4 and CR 44; totally destroying several chicken coups...leaving the chickens untouched...felling a tree onto a car, and slightly damaging a house. The tornado then began to weaken and rapidly dissipated. Skywarn spotters living in the area, the Hempstead County Judge and OES were eyewitnesses to the event.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindOzan$20,000Report of two damaged chicken houses on CR 1310 between Ozan and Nashville, Arkansas.
July 2010LightningOzan$20,000A strong thunderstorm developed over a pasture and lightning struck a tree with a herd of cattle standing underneath the tree. Approximately a dozen cows were killed.
April 2026HailOzan-Golf ball size hail reported in the town of Ozan.
March 2023HailOzan-Hail up to ping pong ball size reported near Ozan via social media.
May 2023Flash FloodOzan-Highway 278 was flooded just southeast of the Ozan community.
June 2021Flash FloodOzan-Hempstead Road 1315 was flooded and closed due to a washed out culvert.
June 2021Flash FloodOzan-County Road 333 was flooded and closed due to rushing water from the Middle Fork Ozan Creek. A car attempted to cross the flooded roadway and stalled in the high water.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOzan-Trees downed in the community of Yancy.
March 1993HailOzan-Hail up to baseball-size covered the ground.
April 2014HailOzan-no account filed
April 2012HailOzan-no account filed
April 2007HailOzan-no account filed
May 2001HailOzan-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindOzan-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
Academy (historical)3.3 miles13
Clow4.1 miles14
Bellair4.6 miles14
Yancy4.9 miles14
Jakajones (historical)5.1 miles13
Washington5.5 miles13
McCaskill6.3 miles14
Compton (historical)7.0 miles14

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 OzanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79518The 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 53119. 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.