Pollard, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pollard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72456. It stands on Sales Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pollard quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 338 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPollard fell from 222 to 193 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 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 193 | -29 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1935 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rector quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Pollard quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pollard between 1999 and 2012, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 1999 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 February 2012 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pollard: 19 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Asphalt of Ark.Inc,Pit No 2 | Clay | Producer | ||
| Cochise Row | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Piggott Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pollard in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Pollard | $1,300,000 | Heavy rain during late April into the beginning of May caused the St. Francis River to rise above flood stage. The river rose to near record levels in the beginning of May and remained above flood stage through the end of May. A break in the levee in Butler County, Missouri, north of Clay County, caused some concern that additional flood water would move into Clay County. However, the water never made it into Clay County. A few homes sustained minor damage. Several roads were closed and/or sustained damage. Several hundred acres of cropland was flooded. A man drowned when his boat capsized in the flood waters. |
| December 2009 | Flash Flood | Pollard | $241,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding north of Pollard. Highway 139 was covered by 3 feet of water and was closed as a result. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Pollard | $50,000 | Three inches of rain fell in a span of 3 hours which caused a creek outside of Pollard to flood its banks. The water flooded a house as a result. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Pollard | $10,000 | A brief EF0 tornado touched down near the intersection of CR 339 and CR 321 northwest of Pollard. When the tornado touched down, a large tree was uprooted, damaging an awning on a residential porch. The tornado quickly began to weaken after its initial touchdown, but not before ripping some metal roofing off a barn and blowing a few shingles off the roof of Trailer's Chapel General Baptist Church along CR 321. The tornado also caused minor tree damage along CR 328, lifting after crossing Highway 139. This survey was assisted by law enforcement camera footage. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollard | $10,000 | Many powerlines were blown down. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollard | $2,000 | The rear flank downdraft associated with the tornado that struck Pollard snapped a couple of tree trunks along Highway 62. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollard | - | A macroburst struck eastern Clay County with damaging winds. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down from Pollard to Piggott continuing to the Missouri state line. A commercial building roof was damaged near Piggott. Several homes suffered roof damage. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollard | - | Straight line winds produced damage from northwest of Piggott to south of Rector. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down. In addition, a roof turbine was blown off in Rector. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pollard | - | Straight line winds knocked down tree limbs and a few trees in Pollard, Piggott, Greenway and Rector. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Styra (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Crockett | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Piggott | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| McDougal | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Greenway | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Francis | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Mitchell | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Trinnon | 7.1 miles | 11 |
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 Pollard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q385592 | 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 78073. 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.







