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Viola, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72583. The Survey maps it on the Viola quadrangle. 358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Viola within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Viola grew from 337 to 358 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
2010337
2020358+21 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

125 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Viola between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,533 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Smoking1

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
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Viola in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2014Flash FloodViola$100,000County roads suffered considerable damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindViola$50,000Tin roofing was removed from several houses. Trees and power lines were blown down. Some power poles were snapped.
October 2009Flash FloodViola$30,000Water rescues were carried out south of Viola.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindViola$30,000Thunderstorm winds removed at least half of a metal roof at a school building in Viola. Several trees were also blown down.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindViola$20,000A roof was blown off a barn.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindViola$12,000Trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling on a garage. A carport was blown away. Shingles were torn off roofs.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindViola$5,000Trees were blown down around Viola.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindViola$5,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindViola$1,000A tree was blown down in the area.
November 2024Flash FloodViola-Numerous roads were completely covered by flood waters in several locations across Viola and Fulton County.
August 2019Flash FloodViola-Some roads have become inundated with water and some low water crossings have flooded.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindViola-Trees were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindViola-Power lines blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindViola-Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindViola-Trees and power lines were downed, with some buildings sustaining roof damage.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindViola-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
April 1993HailViola-Hail up to 1.00 inch in diameter, broke windows and damaged roofs and cars in Mammoth Spring.
March 2015HailViola-no account filed
February 2012HailViola-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudViola-no account filed
May 2009HailViola-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindViola-no account filed
April 2004Flash FloodViola-no account filed
May 2004HailViola-no account filed
August 2003HailViola-no account filed
April 2000HailViola-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindViola-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindViola-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindViola-no account filed
October 1995HailViola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Flint Springs2.8 miles11
Shady Grove4.2 miles11
Pickren Hall4.4 miles16
Argosy (historical)4.9 miles16
Mitchell5.3 miles16
Byron5.3 miles11
Gepp6.5 miles16
Sturkie7.1 miles11

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 ViolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2188898The 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 58806. 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.