BlockWilson, Arkansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Golden Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72395. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle. 766 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
On record in Wilson
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 5 records
Wilson Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2016
Wilson Community Houselisted 2015
Wilson High School Gymnasiumlisted 2015
Wilson Residential Historic Districtlisted 2016- Wilson Motor Companylisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresWilson fell from 903 to 766 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 | 903 | |
| 2020 | 766 | -137 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1939 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $10,000 | Straight line winds blew trees down in Wilson. A broadcast booth of a football stadium was blown down and an equipment barn was destroyed as well. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $10,000 | Several power lines and a large tree were blown down. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Multiple large trees down in Wilson. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down in the Wilson area. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down across the railroad tracks in Wilson. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $3,000 | Trees down across Hwy 61. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $2,000 | The siding was stripped from part of a house in Wilson. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Wilson | $2,000 | Penny size hail was covering the ground. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $1,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Wilson | $100 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Wilson | $50 | A tornado briefly touched down near Wilson producing little damage. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wilson | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Wilson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Lake | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Delpro | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Driver | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Marie | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Evadale | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Upper Nodena (historical) | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Holt (historical) | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Spur Four | 4.3 miles | 9 |
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 Wilson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2254974 | 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 58899. 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.
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.