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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.

Plumerville within Conway County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Plumerville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010826
2020734-92 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

64 since 1997

Regional 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2002Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sardis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkClayProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1993Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$500,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a frame house and two mobile homes.
June 2023LightningPlumerville$200,000A house in Plummerville was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
October 1993Tornado (F1)Plumerville$50,000A 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 1993Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$10,000Power lines were blown down.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$10,000Trees were down on Caney Valley Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPlumerville$7,000Trees and power lines were blown down at a couple of locations in Plumerville.
April 2024HailPlumerville-Corrects the previous hail report from 3 W Plumerville.
July 2024Flash FloodPlumerville-Portions of Arkansas Highway 287 between the towns of Plumerville and Morrilton impassible due to water completely covering the roadway.
June 2023HailPlumerville-An mPING report of golf ball sized hail fell between Morrilton and Plumerville.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPlumerville-Multiple trees were reported down in Plummerville.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPlumerville-Two trees were down across Highway 64 between Morrilton and Plumerville.
May 2009HailPlumerville-Quarter sized hail was two inches deep on the ground.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindPlumerville-Thunderstorm winds blew a sign down at a local restaurant. Part of the roof of a lumber shed was also blown off.
August 2011HailPlumerville-no account filed
March 2010HailPlumerville-no account filed
May 2009HailPlumerville-no account filed
March 2008HailPlumerville-no account filed
July 2001HailPlumerville-no account filed
June 1999HailPlumerville-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindPlumerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Clebb (historical)2.6 miles17
Hill Creek3.7 miles17
Menifee4.7 miles17
Deerwood5.0 miles17
Lewisburg5.2 miles17
Mount Olive5.2 miles17
Overcup5.2 miles17
Morrilton5.5 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 PlumervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79667The 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.