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Cash, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little Texas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72421. The Survey maps it on the Cash quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Cash within Craighead County

Population over time

2 figures

Cash fell from 342 to 280 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
2010342
2020280-62 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cash between 1999 and 2016, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cash in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002HailCash$100,000The Bay city hall was windows broken by the hail. Both of the town's police cars were damaged. Some homes in Bay were also damaged.
October 2009Flash FloodCash$25,000Some roads were closed due to flooding.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCash$20,000A large tree sustained damage along Hwy 226 southeast of Cash, on the east side of the Lake City tornado path. A power broken and downed along and near CR 160.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCash$20,000A tree was blown on top of a house in Cash.
December 2009Flash FloodCash$10,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Jonesboro. The intersection of Huntington Avenue and Chestnut was closed as a result. In addition, numerous other roads around the county were closed due to high water.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCash$10,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCash$5,000Straight line winds knocked down power lines across western portions of Craighead County.
July 1994Tornado (F0)Cash$5,000A small tornado briefly touched down. A car was tossed off the road. A mobile home was damaged and several large trees were knocked down.
March 2008HailCash$1,500no account filed
January 2012HailCash$1,000Quarter size hail fell near the intersection of Highway 67 and Highway 226 near the town of Cash.
May 2008HailCash$1,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCash$500A few trees were knocked down.
June 1994HailCash$50A few trees were knocked down.
April 2001HailCash$10no account filed
May 2019HailCash-Quarter to half dollar size hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCash-Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Cash.
January 2007Flash FloodCash-Heavy rain flooded some county roads over western portions of Craighead County.
May 2020HailCash-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Riggs1.9 miles11
Fisher2.5 miles11
Dryden3.1 miles11
Risher3.8 miles12
Winesburg3.9 miles11
Three Way4.0 miles11
Egypt5.1 miles11
Scarb (historical)5.6 miles11

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 CashAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1870690The 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 76543. 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.

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.