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.
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
Evans-Neuhart Houselisted 2014
Mountain View Farmlisted 1996
Ward's Crossing Bridgelisted 2008
Population over time
3 figuresPlainview 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 755 | |
| 2010 | 608 | -147 (-19%) |
| 2020 | 467 | -141 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1890 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
52 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2005 | Natural | 25 acres | Ouachita National Forest | 658 |
| 31 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Flood | Plainview | 2 killed, $10,000 | According 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $50,000 | Some trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $30,000 | An old barn was destroyed, several houses had roof damage, a fence was blown down, and trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $25,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $15,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $1,000 | A tree was down in the area. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Plainview | - | Roads were flooded in and near Plainview. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | Several trees and power lines were downed just north of Plainview. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Plainview | - | Golf ball size hail covered the ground. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | A tree was down on 3rd Street. Several limbs were blown off trees. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | Downburst winds from a severe thunderstorm downed several trees just to the southwest of Plainview. |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees at Plainview. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Plainview | - | A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on a vehicle. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Plainview | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Plainview | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Plainview | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Plainview | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Plainview | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Wards Crossing | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gilkey (historical) | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ola | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Mickles | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Rover | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Danville | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Lone Pine | 8.0 miles | 17 |
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 Plainview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79618 | 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 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.







