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Smackover, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Smackover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71762. The Survey maps it on the Smackover quadrangle. 1,630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Smackover within Union County

On record in Smackover

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Smackover fell from 1,865 to 1,630 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
20101,865
20201,630-235 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

211 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Smackover between 1997 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined111
Arson/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smackover in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 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
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Smackover$50,000An EF1 tornado touched down 3 miles west southwest of Smackover, Arkansas and downed large trees while snapping several others. The path width was 75 yards wide with a path length of 1.5 miles. At least 4 homes received damage from downed trees.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSmackover$50,000Tree downed on a home and truck in town. No injuries reported.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSmackover$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. Several homes were also damaged by fallen trees.
October 2009Flash FloodSmackover$20,000A high water rescue was reported for an elderly man who was trapped in his home on Canova Road near the Smackover Creek. No injuries were reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSmackover$10,000Trees were downed in Smackover, including one tree that fell across a vehicle.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSmackover-Roof blown off a building in Smackover.
December 2024HailSmackover-Nickel size hail reported in Smackover.
January 2023Flash FloodSmackover-Water entered a home in Smackover. High water covered several roads in town as well.
July 2022Flash FloodSmackover-Multiple pictures were posted to social media of numerous roads that were flooded in Smackover. These pictures also revealed that water entered multiple building within the city.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSmackover-Several trees were blown down just southwest of Smackover.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSmackover-A few trees were blown down in Smackover.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSmackover-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Smackover.
March 2016HailSmackover-Quarter size hail reported just south of Smackover.
March 2016HailSmackover-Hen egg size hail reported in Smackover.
February 2012HailSmackover-Quarter sized hail reported on the west side of Smackover, Arkansas.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindSmackover-Trees were downed on Lisbon Road in Smackover, Arkansas.
October 2009Flash FloodSmackover-Arkansas State Police reported that most roads were closed in Smackover, Arkansas for high water. Hwy. 167 north of El Dorado, Arkansas was knee deep in many locations.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindSmackover-Trees were downed in the town of Smackover, Arkansas.
May 2001Flash FloodSmackover-Numerous roads flooded and impassable.
April 2014HailSmackover-no account filed
April 2014HailSmackover-no account filed
February 2008HailSmackover-no account filed
February 2008HailSmackover-no account filed
March 2008HailSmackover-no account filed
May 2008HailSmackover-no account filed
May 2003HailSmackover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Kenova1.5 miles17
Sandy Land2.4 miles17
Norphlet4.7 miles17
Dumas City7.5 miles16
Quinn8.2 miles15
Lisbon8.4 miles16
Herma9.0 miles15
Nugulf9.4 miles19

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 SmackoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79328The 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 58637. 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.

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.