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Strawberry, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reeds Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72469. The Survey maps it on the Strawberry quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Strawberry within Lawrence County

Population over time

3 figures

Strawberry fell from 283 to 268 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
2000283
2010302+19 (+7%)
2020268-34 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Strawberry between 1997 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2014Arson/incendiarism14 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSHA27996771
24 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Strawberry: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. 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
Raney MineZincPast Producer
CalamineLead, ZincPast Producer
Clifton E.Cook PropertyIronUnknown
Harris PropertyLead, ZincPast Producer
Iron Ore MountainIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strawberry in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindStrawberry$150,000Straight line winds completely destroyed a shop building, a tractor barn and damaged wooden high voltage transmission poles and lines along County Road 410 near College City. In addition, large trees were toppled at Williams Baptist College. Winds were measured in College City at 67 mph. A tree was knocked down on Highway 25 between Strawberry and Saffell as well. In Alicia, large wooden high voltage transmission poles and lines were damaged. Scattered damage to trees, small sheds, and outbuildings occurred along Highway 230, Highway 91 and Highway 228 between Alicia and Sedewick. Sheet metal from the Morgan Portable Building plant was blown onto the Walnut Ridge Regional Airport grounds. A few signs at the airport were damaged as well. A home on County Road 723 received major damage as the garage and sunroom were destroyed and part of the roof was blown off. The school district in Hoxie reported damage to an awning at the elementary school and to the roof of a dug out and ticket booth at the athletic fields. Several sections of fence and a few signs were damaged on campus as well.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Strawberry$5,000The tornado moved into Lawrence county from Sharp county. The tornado knocked down a few trees along Highway 230.
March 2006HailStrawberry$100no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindStrawberry-A few trees were knocked down near the community of Strawberry.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStrawberry-Multiple trees were blown down in the community of Strawberry.
April 2020HailStrawberry-This report was relayed by NWS Memphis.
April 2020HailStrawberry-This report was relayed by NWS Memphis.
February 2012HailStrawberry-Ping pong size hail fell northwest of Strawberry.
April 2018HailStrawberry-no account filed
April 2011HailStrawberry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Jesup3.5 miles9
Driftwood3.7 miles11
Saffell3.7 miles11
Lynn4.6 miles9
Old Martin Mill Place6.8 miles10
Eaton7.5 miles13
Smithville7.8 miles9
Denton10.7 miles13

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 StrawberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3317207The 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 55268. 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.