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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.

Pollard within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Pollard 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.

YearPeople Change
2010222
2020193-29 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

4 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 1999Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 February 2012Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delta Asphalt of Ark.Inc,Pit No 2ClayProducer
Cochise RowSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Piggott PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodPollard$1,300,000Heavy 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 2009Flash FloodPollard$241,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding north of Pollard. Highway 139 was covered by 3 feet of water and was closed as a result.
June 2013Flash FloodPollard$50,000Three 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 2026Tornado (EF0)Pollard$10,000A 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 2002Thunderstorm WindPollard$10,000Many powerlines were blown down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPollard$2,000The rear flank downdraft associated with the tornado that struck Pollard snapped a couple of tree trunks along Highway 62.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPollard-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 2014Thunderstorm WindPollard-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 2012Thunderstorm WindPollard-Straight line winds knocked down tree limbs and a few trees in Pollard, Piggott, Greenway and Rector.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Styra (historical)2.7 miles14
Crockett5.0 miles14
Piggott5.3 miles11
McDougal6.6 miles14
Greenway6.7 miles12
Saint Francis6.7 miles11
Mitchell6.7 miles12
Trinnon7.1 miles11

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 PollardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q385592The 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.