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Poping, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Wallace Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. The Survey maps it on the Cecil quadrangle.

Poping within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

92 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Poping between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,232 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Poping: 19 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Chrisman Rock QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Quarries 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arnold Stone CoStonePast ProducerThin-bedded sandstone
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poping in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2020Tornado (EF1)Poping$35,000This tornado developed along the leading edge of a line of thunderstorms, south of Highway 96. It moved east-northeast, damaging the roof of a home, destroying several outbuildings, snapping or uprooting numerous trees, and blowing down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
July 2025Flash FloodPoping-Portions of Highway 96 were reported flooded west of Oak Bend Road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPoping-Oak Bend Road at Highway 96 was blocked by large trees that had blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPoping-A few trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Cecil3.1 miles19
Webb City3.2 miles19
Meg3.4 miles19
South Ozark3.6 miles19
Ozark4.0 miles19
Sub Rosa (historical)5.2 miles19
Etna5.9 miles19
Toney5.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122543532The 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 57161. 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.