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Turrell, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fogleman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72384. It stands on Dry Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Tyronza quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Turrell within Crittenden County

On record in Turrell

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Turrell fell from 615 to 517 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
2010615
2020517-98 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Turrell between 1993 and 2015, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 1
8 August 1996Debris and open burning5.4 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeNEW SHOP
23 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 2
28 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexWALKWAY
5 March 1994Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexWAP 1
15 March 1993Smoking3.1 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexWAP 1
5 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeUNIT P-9 WILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turrell in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1995HailTurrell$30,000The town's high school had many of its windows broken by the hail. Numerous cars were damaged with one car totally destroyed.
April 2006HailTurrell$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailTurrell$1,000no account filed
April 2003HailTurrell$750no account filed
January 1999HailTurrell$100no account filed
April 1998HailTurrell$10no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTurrell-Measured with an anemometer on a rooftop.
March 2016Flash FloodTurrell-Several roads and streets were closed due over six inches of flood water covering them.
April 2025HailTurrell-no account filed
March 2011HailTurrell-no account filed
May 2010HailTurrell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Engledale (historical)1.7 miles10
Stacy2.2 miles14
Gilmore2.5 miles10
Meneshea4.0 miles14
Lambethville4.0 miles14
Heafer4.4 miles10
Clarkedale5.0 miles14
Booker5.3 miles10

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 TurrellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79291The 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 78600. 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.