Black Oak

Geography

Black Oak is located in eastern Craighead County, east of Jonesboro, the county seat, and south of Monette. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , 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. * Highway 18 * Highway 135 * Highway 148

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  212
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  184
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  170
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  154
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  145
• Common Grackle

  Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  131
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  129
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  128

Most recent

• M 2.63 — 2026-08-04
  6 km ENE of Steele, Missouri
• M 2.64 — 2026-05-15
  8 km NW of Tiptonville, Tennessee
• M 4 — 2026-04-23
  1 km WNW of Cooter, Missouri
• M 2.52 — 2025-12-30
  12 km WNW of Newbern, Tennessee
• M 2.59 — 2025-12-03
  1 km NNW of Cooter, Missouri
• M 2.73 — 2025-11-09
  7 km SE of Ridgely, Tennessee