BlockPoplar Grove, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72374. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lexa quadrangle. 215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.
On record in Poplar Grove
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 1 record
Phillips County Penal Farm Historic Districtlisted 2007
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 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.
- 1940 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Marvell quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Lexa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Grove between 1999 and 2008, burning about 153 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 November 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 90 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 October 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 January 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Grove in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Hail | Poplar Grove | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Poplar Grove | - | Half-dollar-sized hail in Poplar Grove. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Corner | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Kindall | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Ridge | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Marvell | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Trenton | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| North Creek (historical) | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Blackfoot | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kingtown | 4.1 miles | 16 |
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 Poplar Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7229399 | 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 78076. 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.
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.