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Poyen, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fenter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72128. It stands on Thunder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Poyen quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Poyen within Grant County

On record in Poyen

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

Population over time

2 figures

Poyen fell from 290 to 263 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
2010290
2020263-27 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

157 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Poyen between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,168 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Poyen: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium. 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
Wilcox Group KaolinAluminum, Iron, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence
H JordanSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poyen in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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 2022Thunderstorm WindPoyen$30,000The local EM relayed that a business in Poyen sustained roof damage.
September 2012Flash FloodPoyen$25,000Ditches overflowed, causing roads to flood.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPoyen$5,000Trees were blown down onto U.S. 270.
June 2023HailPoyen-Half dollar sized hail fell at Poyen via mPING.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPoyen-A tree was blown down on Hwy. 270 at Poyen.
February 2018Flash FloodPoyen-Three miles of State Highway 229 between the towns of Poyen and Fenter was closed due to high water.
September 2013Heavy RainPoyen-Rainfall amounts included 4.27 inches at Leola and 4.13 inches at Sheridan.
July 2007Flash FloodPoyen-Water was reported over several roads.
July 2007Flash FloodPoyen-Several inches of water were noted in the post office. Several rural roads in the area were under water.|
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPoyen-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPoyen-A few trees were knocked down.
April 2014HailPoyen-no account filed
June 2012HailPoyen-no account filed
July 2005HailPoyen-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPoyen-no account filed
May 2003HailPoyen-no account filed
June 2001HailPoyen-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPoyen-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F3)Poyen-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F1)Poyen-no account filed
March 1999Tornado (F1)Poyen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
McLean (historical)1.6 miles9
Lenham1.6 miles9
Fenter3.6 miles10
Buie4.5 miles8
Prattsville4.6 miles8
Arthur (historical)4.9 miles8
Thiel5.6 miles9
Brush Creek7.4 miles9

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 PoyenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2336385The 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 58419. 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.