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Caldwell, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Telico Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72326. It stands on Little Telico Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forrest City quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Caldwell within St. Francis County

On record in Caldwell

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

3 figures

Caldwell grew from 292 to 451 between 1970 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
1970292
2010555
2020451-104 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Caldwell between 1998 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
3 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minor53 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Caldwell: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crisp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Forrest City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Forrest City Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St.Francis Materials CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woods Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caldwell in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCaldwell$10,000A large tree limb blew through a mobile home.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCaldwell$2,000Straight line winds propelled tree branches through the roof of a home in Caldwell.
April 2008HailCaldwell$1,000no account filed
July 2005HailCaldwell$750no account filed
June 1994HailCaldwell$50no account filed
June 2001HailCaldwell$10no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCaldwell-Tree down along Highway 261 west of Caldwell.

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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
Union Hill1.0 miles12
Telico (historical)2.1 miles12
Rosine2.6 miles12
Meadow Cliff2.7 miles12
Harris3.4 miles12
Shiloh3.4 miles12
Mount Vernon (historical)3.7 miles12
Colt3.9 miles12

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 CaldwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671104The 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 83097. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.