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.
Population over time
2 figuresTaylor 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 566 | |
| 2020 | 579 | +13 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 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
- 1960 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Magnolia 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 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/incendiarism | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | COL15878656 |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | 1 hurt, $20,000 | Severe 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 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Taylor | $150,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | $50,000 | Several 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | $30,000 | Several large trees down including one tree that crushed a mobile home. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Taylor | - | A photo of tennis ball size hail that fell near Taylor was posted to the KTAL-TV Todd Warren Facebook page. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Taylor | - | Quarter size hail fell just north of Taylor. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Taylor | - | Hail fell at the intersection of Hwy. 53 and CR. 160. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | A tree was downed on Hwy. 78 blocking the road in Taylor, Arkansas. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Taylor | - | Hail reported on Hwy 160 between Macedonia and Taylor. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (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 2003 | Lightning | Taylor | - | Lightning struck a house on Shady Lane south of East University. Only light damage was reported. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | Several large trees down. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | Trees down in town along CR 18. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | Trees and powerlines down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylor | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several chicken houses. Several homes also sustained roof damage. Numerous trees were also blown down. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Taylor | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Taylor | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Taylor | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Taylor | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Taylor | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Taylor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bussey | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Walnut Grove | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Welcome | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rocky Mound | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Harmony | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sharman | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Experiment | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Western | 7.3 miles | 14 |
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 Taylor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79471 | 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 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.






