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Roe, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Roc Roe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72134. The Survey maps it on the Roe quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.

Roe within Monroe County

Population over time

3 figures

Roe fell from 124 to 68 between 2000 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
2000124
2010114-10 (-8%)
202068-46 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Roe between 1996 and 2019, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
13 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDale Bumpers White River National Wildlife RefugeRED CAT ROAD
10 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 February 2014Debris and open burning135 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMON1587631
8 December 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresCache River National Wildlife RefugeFIRE # 36
15 November 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Roe: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ark St Hwy Dept Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mobley Cnstrctn Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roe in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRoe$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and damaged some buildings.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindRoe$40,000Numerous trees and some power lines were blown down. A couple of houses were damaged by falling trees.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRoe$10,000Trees were blown down, one of which fell on a mobile home.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindRoe$5,000Some trees were blown down.
June 2023HailRoe-Golf ball sized hail fell in the city of Roe.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindRoe-Trees and stop signs were blown down.
June 1995HailRoe-Some crops were damaged by nickel-size hail near Roe.
March 2008HailRoe-no account filed
August 1999HailRoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Burma (historical)1.7 miles16
Aberdeen3.1 miles16
Clarendon5.6 miles16
Duncan7.1 miles16
Jeffries8.7 miles16
Dobbs Landing9.4 miles15
Lenoir (historical)10.0 miles16
Park Grove10.0 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.

Wikipedia article on RoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2486295The 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 58513. 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.