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Russell, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72139. It lies near Wolf Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bald Knob quadrangle. 184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Russell within White County

On record in Russell

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Russell fell from 228 to 184 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
2000228
2010216-12 (-5%)
2020184-32 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Russell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White 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 Russell: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russell in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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
August 2011HailRussell-Golf ball size hail fell in the area around Russell.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Russell-A tornado touched down for only a few seconds in an open field on a hilltop. A resident on Robert Lane witnessed the tornado.
September 2007Flash FloodRussell-Several county roads were flooded around Russell.
July 1997Flash FloodRussell-Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding in Russell. Several county roads were covered with high water for a short period of time.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Keeler Corner1.2 miles14
Twentythree2.9 miles9
Worden4.8 miles14
Bald Knob4.8 miles10
Bradford5.0 miles12
Velvet Ridge5.0 miles9
Rio Vista5.3 miles14
Liberty Valley6.0 miles10

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 RussellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2141997The 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 81894. 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.