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Plainview, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lamar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72857. The Survey maps it on the Plainview quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Plainview within Yell County

On record in Plainview

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Plainview fell from 755 to 467 between 2000 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
2000755
2010608-147 (-19%)
2020467-141 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 1992 and 2017, burning about 644 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning13
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2005Natural25 acresOuachita National Forest658
31 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Plainview: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainview in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2008FloodPlainview2 killed, $10,000According to police reports, the driver of a small pick-up truck drove around barricades into a flooded portion of Arkansas Highway 28. The motorist continued through about 1/8 mile of flooded roadway until the water got so deep that the truck floated off the highway. The two occupants drowned. Water was reported to be so deep on the highway that only the tops of the guardrails were visible. The highway had been closed and barricaded for more than 24 hours when the fatalities occurred.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindPlainview$50,000Some trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPlainview$30,000An old barn was destroyed, several houses had roof damage, a fence was blown down, and trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPlainview$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPlainview$15,000Power lines were blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPlainview$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindPlainview$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPlainview$1,000A tree was down in the area.
September 2020Flash FloodPlainview-Roads were flooded in and near Plainview.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Several trees and power lines were downed just north of Plainview.
April 2012HailPlainview-Golf ball size hail covered the ground.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPlainview-A tree was down on 3rd Street. Several limbs were blown off trees.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Downburst winds from a severe thunderstorm downed several trees just to the southwest of Plainview.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees at Plainview.
June 1995HailPlainview-A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindPlainview-A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on a vehicle.
April 2012HailPlainview-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindPlainview-no account filed
June 2001HailPlainview-no account filed
May 2001HailPlainview-no account filed
March 1996HailPlainview-no account filed
March 1996HailPlainview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Kingston2.1 miles17
Wards Crossing3.5 miles12
Gilkey (historical)4.2 miles13
Ola4.9 miles18
Mickles5.5 miles17
Rover6.5 miles13
Danville6.8 miles17
Lone Pine8.0 miles17

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 PlainviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79618The 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 78027. 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.