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Taylor, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71861. The Survey maps it on the Taylor quadrangle. 579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Taylor within Columbia County

Population over time

2 figures

Taylor grew from 566 to 579 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
2010566
2020579+13 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

73 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Taylor between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCOL15878656
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTaylor1 hurt, $20,000Severe wind gusts downed a tree which fell atop a driven vehicle on U.S. Hwy 371. The man driving the vehicle was injured and taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released.
May 1999Tornado (F2)Taylor$150,000A supercell developed under favourable atmospheric conditions. A partial roof was removed from a frame home. One mobile home was heavily damaged. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Damage estimates include timber damage.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindTaylor$50,000Several trees and powerlines were downed in the Taylor, Arkansas community. Many powerlines were downed between the Southern Arkansas University Campus and the town of McNeil as 7 power poles were downed in that location. In addition, several trees were downed on the Emerson-Taylor School campus where windows were shattered. Among roads across the county that were blocked included Arkansas 19 south of Walkerville and Arkansas 98 between Emerson and Arkansas 160 east of Taylor. County Road 61 in the Ebenezer area was blocked by a downed tree with trees also across County Roads 3, 27 and 80. In Magnolia, a tree blocked South Washington Street near the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, and other trees blocked portions of West University.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindTaylor$30,000Several large trees down including one tree that crushed a mobile home.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Video and photos confirm the development of a gustnado shortly after a strong gust front/outflow boundary moved across the town of Taylor, Arkansas. This feature moved a little more than a quarter of a mile across the town uprooting several large trees and snapping numerous large branches.
January 2017HailTaylor-A photo of tennis ball size hail that fell near Taylor was posted to the KTAL-TV Todd Warren Facebook page.
March 2016HailTaylor-Quarter size hail fell just north of Taylor.
March 2010HailTaylor-Hail fell at the intersection of Hwy. 53 and CR. 160.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTaylor-A tree was downed on Hwy. 78 blocking the road in Taylor, Arkansas.
April 2004HailTaylor-Hail reported on Hwy 160 between Macedonia and Taylor.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Taylor-A strong thunderstorm moved rapidly southeast across Lafayette County, AR into Colombia County, AR and eventually into Webster and Claiborne Parish Louisiana. This fast moving thunderstorm was a cyclic tornado producer. Numerous trees and limbs were snapped off or blown down. No structures were in the path of this tornado.
July 2003LightningTaylor-Lightning struck a house on Shady Lane south of East University. Only light damage was reported.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Several large trees down.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Trees down in town along CR 18.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Trees and powerlines down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several chicken houses. Several homes also sustained roof damage. Numerous trees were also blown down.
June 2005HailTaylor-no account filed
June 2005HailTaylor-no account filed
May 1999HailTaylor-no account filed
January 1997HailTaylor-no account filed
March 1996HailTaylor-no account filed
March 1993HailTaylor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Bussey3.8 miles14
Walnut Grove4.0 miles13
Welcome5.5 miles13
Rocky Mound5.8 miles15
Harmony6.3 miles15
Sharman6.7 miles14
Experiment7.1 miles14
Western7.3 miles14

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 TaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79471The 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 55455. 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.