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Casa, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Casa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72025. It stands on Hambright Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casa quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Casa within Perry County

Population over time

3 figures

Casa fell from 209 to 120 between 2000 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
2000209
2010171-38 (-18%)
2020120-51 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Casa between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,339 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning705 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionNIMROD
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2001Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Casa: 7 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Manganese. 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
Fitch ProspectManganeseProspect
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casa in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2011Flash FloodCasa1 killed, $10,000The driver of a feed truck exited his vehicle at a low-water crossing to remove a large log that was in the road at Casa-Aplin Rd. and Deer Run Ln. While he was outside his truck, he was swept away by high water. The incident occurred around 8:00 PM CDT on the 25th, but the accident was not discovered until around 8:00 AM CDT on the 26th.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCasa$150,000Trees were down on power lines, houses and roadways.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCasa$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down in northern and northwestern parts of Perry County.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCasa$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCasa-Trees and power lines were down in Casa.
March 2008Flash FloodCasa-There was an auto accident near Casa due to high water on Casa Mountain Road. High water was reported at Smith Crossing Road.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Casa-A weak tornado touched down briefly over northwest Perry County. The tornado affected mainly rural areas with numerous downed trees noted along the damage path.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCasa-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and overturned a storage tank.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCasa-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCasa-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
May 2002HailCasa-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCasa-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCasa-no account filed
March 1996HailCasa-no account filed
April 1996HailCasa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Homewood3.8 miles18
Rose Creek4.2 miles18
Nimrod4.6 miles13
West Aplin4.8 miles14
Aplin5.0 miles14
Deberrie5.9 miles13
Fourche Junction7.4 miles12
Adona8.0 miles18

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 CasaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955419The 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 57521. 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.