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Prairie Creek, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72756. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle. 2,217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,404 feet above sea level.

Prairie Creek within Benton County

On record in Prairie Creek

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

Prairie Creek grew from 2,066 to 2,217 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
20102,066
20202,217+151 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

42 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 601 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism10

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 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2016Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Creek: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Copper. 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
Page MineCopperProspect
UnkStoneUnknown
RogersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Puckett (historical)1.3 miles18
Pleasant Ridge1.9 miles18
Electric Springs (historical)2.0 miles18
Beaver Shores2.6 miles18
Rogers3.1 miles18
Beacon Addition3.4 miles15
Key (historical)3.6 miles18
Pleasant Hill3.6 miles18

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 Prairie CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668960The 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 58424. 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.