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Carthage, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71725. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Carthage within Dallas County

On record in Carthage

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carthage fell from 343 to 222 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.

YearPeople Change
2010343
2020222-121 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Carthage between 1997 and 2020, burning about 926 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Carthage: 17 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSilicaUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carthage in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flood. 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
May 2011FloodCarthage$750,000no account filed
April 2011FloodCarthage$250,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
April 2010Tornado (EF1)Carthage$40,000A mobile home was blown off its foundation and had part of its roof blown off, windows blown out, and limbs thrown through its roof. Power lines, power poles, and trees were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000A tree fell across a road. Power outages occurred in Carthage.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindCarthage$5,000Some trees were down.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindCarthage$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 229.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines. Six homes and a business in Carthage also sustained roof damage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Several trees blown down.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Carthage-A weak tornado touched down in northeast Dallas County near the Cooney community. The only damage noted were a number of trees that were twisted and blown down. The tornado moved eastward into Grant County.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees on Highway 229 at Carthage.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Several trees were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
August 2001HailCarthage-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
May 1999HailCarthage-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
May 1996HailCarthage-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Ivy3.9 miles9
Cooney4.1 miles9
Saline (historical)4.9 miles9
Tulip5.2 miles8
Bunn6.0 miles9
Welchs Shop (historical)6.7 miles8
Princeton7.4 miles16
Wave7.8 miles8

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 CarthageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79271The 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 57519. 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.