BlockCaraway, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72419. The Survey maps it on the Caraway quadrangle. 1,133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCaraway fell from 1,279 to 1,133 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 | 1,279 | |
| 2020 | 1,133 | -146 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Caraway quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caraway in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $30,000 | Straight line winds knocked a large tree limb on to the roof of a house on Illinois Street in Caraway. The limb collapsed half of the roof. Several large tree limbs were knocked down throughout Caraway. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down. A metal building was damaged. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $8,000 | Straight line winds blew large trees and power lines down in Caraway. Structural damage also occurred to a barn. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $5,000 | A few homes suffered minor roof damage. Several large trees were blown down. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Caraway | $3,000 | A tornado briefly touched down and rolled some cotton trailers over. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $2,000 | Straight line winds knocked down power lines on West State Street in Caraway. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | $2,000 | Several power lines were knocked down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Caraway | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Caraway | $1,750 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Caraway | $100 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Caraway | $50 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Caraway | $10 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Caraway | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Caraway | - | Hail measured at 2.75 inches in Caraway. |
| November 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caraway | - | Straight line winds produced heavy damage to a shop building and destroyed a small storage building near Caraway. Ten to fifteen power poles inside the town were also knocked down. A couple of power poles were knocked down on Highway 139 north of town. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco (historical) | 0.9 miles | 11 | |
| Lepanto Junction | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Hancock Junction | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Degelow | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Mangrum | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Deglow | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Shaw (historical) | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hancock | 3.3 miles | 10 |
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 Caraway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2538041 | 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 57508. 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.