Plumerville, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Howard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72127. The Survey maps it on the Morrilton East quadrangle. 734 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.
On record in Plumerville
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
Plumerville School Buildinglisted 1992- Highway A-1 Bridgelisted 2021
- Stuckey's (Plumerville)listed 2022
Population over time
2 figuresPlumerville fell from 826 to 734 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 826 | |
| 2020 | 734 | -92 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1892 USGS Morrillton quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Morrillton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1894 USGS Morrilton quadrangle1:125000
- 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Morrilton East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Conway quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Morrilton East quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
64 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Plumerville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Plumerville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sardis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plumerville in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a frame house and two mobile homes. |
| June 2023 | Lightning | Plumerville | $200,000 | A house in Plummerville was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. |
| October 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Plumerville | $50,000 | A tornado touched down in the river bottoms near Plumerville. The tornado crossed a levee and destroyed a large farm sprinkler and blew down a number of trees. A couple of old cotton picking machines were turned over, some grain bins were destroyed and several barns were blown down. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| February 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $10,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $10,000 | Trees were down on Caney Valley Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | $7,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down at a couple of locations in Plumerville. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Plumerville | - | Corrects the previous hail report from 3 W Plumerville. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Plumerville | - | Portions of Arkansas Highway 287 between the towns of Plumerville and Morrilton impassible due to water completely covering the roadway. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Plumerville | - | An mPING report of golf ball sized hail fell between Morrilton and Plumerville. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | - | Multiple trees were reported down in Plummerville. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | - | Two trees were down across Highway 64 between Morrilton and Plumerville. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Plumerville | - | Quarter sized hail was two inches deep on the ground. |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew a sign down at a local restaurant. Part of the roof of a lumber shed was also blown off. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Plumerville | - | no account filed |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plumerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clebb (historical) | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Hill Creek | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Menifee | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Deerwood | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Lewisburg | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Olive | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Overcup | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Morrilton | 5.5 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 Plumerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79667 | 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 78066. 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.










