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.
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
- Highway B-1, Little Telico Creek Bridgelisted 2009
Population over time
3 figuresCaldwell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 292 | |
| 2010 | 555 | |
| 2020 | 451 | -104 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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 Wynne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forrest City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wynne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 53 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crisp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Forrest City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Forrest City Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| St.Francis Materials Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Woods Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $10,000 | A large tree limb blew through a mobile home. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | $2,000 | Straight line winds propelled tree branches through the roof of a home in Caldwell. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Caldwell | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Caldwell | $750 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Caldwell | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Caldwell | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caldwell | - | Tree down along Highway 261 west of Caldwell. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Hill | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| Telico (historical) | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Rosine | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Meadow Cliff | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Harris | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Shiloh | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Vernon (historical) | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Colt | 3.9 miles | 12 |
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 Caldwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671104 | 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 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.





