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Black Oak is a town in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 262 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Black Oak is the namesake of 1970s rock band Black Oak Arkansas and the setting of John Grisham’s novel A Painted House.

Black Oak town overview:
Name:	Black Oak town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Arkansas
County:	Craighead County
Elevation:	230 ft (70 m)
Total Area:	0.42 sq mi (1.08 km²)
Land Area:	0.42 sq mi (1.08 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	233
Population Density:	557.42/sq mi (215.09/km²)
ZIP code:	72414
Area code:	870
FIPS code:	0506610
GNISfeature ID:	0076365

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Geography

Black Oak is located in eastern Craighead County at 35°50′11″N 90°22′3″W / 35.83639°N 90.36750°W / 35.83639; -90.36750 (35.836510, -90.367504). It is 20 miles (32 km) east of Jonesboro, the county seat, and 4 miles (6 km) south of Monette. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km), all land.

Ecologically, Black Oak is located within the St. Francis Lowlands ecoregion within the larger Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The St. Francis Lowlands are a flat region mostly covered with row crop agriculture today, though also containing sand blows and sunken lands remaining from the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. Waterways have mostly been channelized, causing loss of aquatic and riparian wildlife habitat. The St. Francis Sunken Lands Wildlife Management Area, which preserves some of the bottomland hardwood forest typical of this ecoregion prior to development for row agriculture lies just west of Black Oak along the St. Francis River.