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Rogers, 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. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle. 69,908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,368 feet above sea level.

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Rogers within Benton County

On record in Rogers

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 12 of 29 shown

Every listing in Benton County

Population over time

3 figures

Rogers grew from 1,265 to 69,908 between 1890 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
18901,265
201055,964
202069,908+13,944 (+25%)

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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Rogers between 1997 and 2019, burning about 383 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1

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
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
8 April 1998Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rogers: 2 unknowns, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

60 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogers in 97 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 49 hail, 43 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindRogers2 hurt, $10,000A tree was blown down onto a car injuring two people.
May 2013LightningRogers2 hurtTwo people were struck and injured by lightning while outside in a parking lot. Both victims were transported to the hospital.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindRogers$1,000,000no account filed
May 2020HailRogers$250,000Hail larger than baseball size damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindRogers$120,000no account filed
May 2008HailRogers$75,000no account filed
February 2023HailRogers$50,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRogers$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindRogers$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and blew down several small barns.
March 2015HailRogers$50,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindRogers$50,000no account filed
March 2025HailRogers$30,000Half dollar size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindRogers$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a home.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRogers$25,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour produced a ten block wide swath of damage from downtown Rogers to two miles north to Highway 102. Most of the damage was trees trees and power lines blown down and trees falling on buildings and cars.
July 2018HailRogers$25,000no account filed
May 2011HailRogers$25,000no account filed
January 2024Thunderstorm WindRogers$20,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged fences and the roofs of homes.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindRogers$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a house.
March 2015HailRogers$15,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRogers$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew shingles from the roofs of homes.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRogers$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, some fell onto a vehicle.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRogers$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a tree that fell onto a home.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindRogers$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees. The falling trees downed power lines causing power outages.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRogers$5,000At least a half-dozen trees were blown down in Rogers. County road crews had to clear at least 50 trees and tree limbs that were blown into roads throughout Benton County.
May 2011HailRogers$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRogers$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, and blew down power lines.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindRogers$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRogers$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRogers$1,000A large section of privacy fence was blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRogers$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindRogers$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRogers$1,000A tree was blown onto power lines near 14th and West Oak Streets in Rogers, knocking out power to 2,000 electric customers.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRogers$500Thunderstorms winds blew down many large tree limbs and trees west of Rogers.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindRogers$500Numerous tree limbs were blown down around Rogers, Cave Springs, and Horseshoe Bend.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRogers$100no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2021Flash FloodRogers-Numerous roads were flooded in and around Rogers.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
July 2016Flash FloodRogers-Heavy rainfall resulted in street flooding across town. A car was stranded in high water on Elm Street.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindRogers-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRogers-An 85 mile an hour wind gust was reported by the broadcast media.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew down large tree limbs.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees in the Prairie Creek Campground area.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRogers-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down a tree.
July 1999FloodRogers-There was minor street flooding in Rogers.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRogers-An isolated severe thunderstorm in Benton County produced wind gusts to 60 miles an hour in Bentonville and ten miles east of Rogers.
April 2026HailRogers-no account filed
March 2025HailRogers-no account filed
March 2025HailRogers-no account filed
April 2025HailRogers-no account filed
April 2025HailRogers-no account filed
April 2025HailRogers-no account filed

Every storm 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
Electric Springs (historical)1.2 miles18
Pleasant Ridge2.3 miles18
Apple Spur2.8 miles17
Pleasant Hill3.0 miles18
Woods (historical)3.0 miles17
Prairie Creek3.1 miles18
Freeman (historical)3.2 miles17
Cross Hollow3.7 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 RogersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79497The 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 54160. 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.