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Piney, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Whittington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71913. It stands on Bull Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Pine quadrangle. 5,238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Piney within Garland County

Population over time

2 figures

Piney grew from 4,699 to 5,238 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
20104,699
20205,238+539 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Piney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 34 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural20 acresHot Springs National ParkCEDAR
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Piney: 9 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Slate, 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
No NameFlagstonePast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
Job No Joo-235Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mountain Pine PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Hot Springs MillSilicaProducer
Mc Earl MineSilicaProducer
Natural Hones MillSilicaProducer
Hot Spring City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piney in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 WindPiney$20,000Trees were blown down on roadways and power lines were blown down.
July 2009Flash FloodPiney$15,000A vehicle was flooded near the Mid America Museum.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPiney-Multiple trees and powerlines were blown down in this general area. A couple of roofs were damaged by thunderstorm winds. Near Oaklawn there was a tree blown onto a home.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPiney-A large tree was blown down near Piney.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPiney-Large tree limbs were blown down.
November 2015Flash FloodPiney-There was a swift water rescue at the 3800 block of Amity Rd. in Hot Springs. Several roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
April 2011Funnel CloudPiney-A funnel cloud was observed near Piney.
April 2011HailPiney-no account filed
March 2010HailPiney-no account filed
July 2008HailPiney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Rockwell2.7 miles8
Hawes3.6 miles13
Hot Springs3.8 miles15
Pleasant Hill3.8 miles8
Bonanza Springs (historical)4.4 miles15
Euclid Heights5.2 miles15
Mountain Pine5.4 miles13
Lake Hamilton5.7 miles11

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 PineyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668994The 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 73101. 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.