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Parkdale, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2002. It stands in De Bastrop Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71661. The Survey maps it on the Wilmot quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Parkdale within Ashley County

On record in Parkdale

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Parkdale fell from 277 to 172 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
2010277
2020172-105 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Parkdale between 1992 and 2015, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
31 August 2011Debris and open burning40 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeFARM FIRE #1
10 August 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeARFSR-FY15-WF-OVERFLOW FOOTE FIRE
1 August 2011Natural21 acresOverflow National Wildlife RefugeBEAVER KILL
20 May 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 December 2005Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 November 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 November 1992Arson/incendiarism54 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOVO
28 October 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOverflow National Wildlife RefugeHEADQUATERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkdale in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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
July 2015Flash FloodParkdale$20,000Heavy rain caused several roads to flood between Portland and Wilmot. Some homes flooded as well.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindParkdale$15,000A couple of power poles were broken along US Highway 165 just north of Parkdale.
March 2000HailParkdale$15,000A few homes and automobiles were damaged.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindParkdale$10,000Power lines were reported down.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindParkdale$10,000Power lines were blown down in Parkdale and in a couple other spots around the county.
September 2011Flash FloodParkdale$10,000Several roads were under water across southeast Ashley County. Radar estimated 4 to 6 inches of rain fell across this area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindParkdale$5,000Trees were blown down along Arkansas Highway 8 in Parkdale.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindParkdale$4,000A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindParkdale$3,000Two trees were blown down between Parkdale and Wilmot.
July 2015Flash FloodParkdale$3,000Heavy rain brought some street flooding in Parkdale.
April 2013HailParkdale-Quarter size hail fell along US Highway 165.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindParkdale-A couple trees were blown down on Highway 8 between Hamburg and Parkdale.
April 1999HailParkdale-no account filed
July 1995HailParkdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
Sunshine4.6 miles16
Wilmot4.7 miles17
Millers Chapel5.2 miles12
Jackson (historical)6.5 miles12
Kimball7.4 miles17
Portland8.2 miles16
Mount Pleasant9.5 miles16
Matoka (historical)10.1 miles16

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 ParkdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79320The 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 77951. 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.

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.