Strong, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. It stands on Norris Branch. The Survey maps it on the Strong quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStrong fell from 558 to 410 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 558 | |
| 2020 | 410 | -148 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1933 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Strong quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
73 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Strong between 1999 and 2019, burning about 873 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | UNI15959013 |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 82 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | FELSENTHAL |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strong in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | 1 hurt, $30,000 | A tree was downed on a home in Strong, Arkansas with one minor injury reported. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | $20,000 | Several trees were downed in the Strong community. A tree was down on the Community Center in town. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | $20,000 | Numerous trees were downed in Strong, Arkansas. One of these trees fell on a home and another tree fell on a local library. There were no report of injuries. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | $5,000 | Some trees were blown down. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Strong | - | Several pictures of golfball to hen egg size hail were taken and posted to social media, that fell just east/southeast of Strong. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Strong | - | A section of Highway 275 just north of Strong was closed due to high water. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Strong | - | Quarter size hail reported in Strong. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Strong | - | Quarter size hail fell at the Teddy Bears Truck Stop in Strong. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Strong | - | A temporary bridge on Highway 82 near Strong was damaged and was in danger of washing out. |
| February 2020 | Flood | Strong | - | State Highway 275 was closed due to high water and continued runoff from Dry Creek and South Lapile Creek just north of Strong. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Strong | - | Highway 275 was closed from the Highway 129 intersection south to the Louisiana border in Southern Union County. Heavy rainfall had flooded the highway at three different creek crossings. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | A shed was flipped over in the community of Strong. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Strong | - | Quarter size hail reported in Strong. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 82 on the west side of Strong. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Strong | - | Golfball size hail was reported in Strong. |
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Several trees and powerlines were downed in the Strong community. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Trees were downed in and around the town of Strong, Arkansas. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Trees were downed on Aurelle Road in Strong, Arkansas. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Powerlines and power poles were downed along Hwy. 82. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | A couple of trees were blown down in town. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Several large limbs were blown down on New London highway. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | One tree was downed along Hwy 275 with multiple limbs down. Power lines were also downed about 3/4 of a mile south of the intersection of Hwy 15 and 275 ner the Union/Bradley County line. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Strong | - | This was a combination of ground and aerial. Numerous trees were snapped off or blown down. No structures were in the tornado path. This tornado moved into Bradley County, AR. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Strong | - | A strong tornado developed under a supercell moving northeast across the county. As the tornado developed in Union Parish, Louisiana, eyewitness reports described the tornado as resembling a stove pipe with screaming winds sounding like a banshee. Where the tornado originally touched down, a bowl like appearance was carved into the woods when viewing the impact point horizontally. The tornado then continued northeast across a combination of farmland and wooded region destroying 2 mobile homes and severely damaging 6 wooden houses. As the tornado moved into Union County, Arkansas, the tornado moved across only heavily wooded area void of structures. |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Strong | - | Oarkland road near strong was closed due to high water. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong | - | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Strong | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Victoria | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Gardner | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lapile | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sandy Bend | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Old Lapile | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Sawmill | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Aurelle | 5.6 miles | 16 |
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 Strong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79369 | The 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 78476. 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.









