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.
Population over time
2 figuresCash 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 342 | |
| 2020 | 280 | -62 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Cash quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Hail | Cash | $100,000 | The 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 2009 | Flash Flood | Cash | $25,000 | Some roads were closed due to flooding. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | $20,000 | A 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | $20,000 | A tree was blown on top of a house in Cash. |
| December 2009 | Flash Flood | Cash | $10,000 | Heavy 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | $5,000 | Straight line winds knocked down power lines across western portions of Craighead County. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Cash | $5,000 | A 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 2008 | Hail | Cash | $1,500 | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Hail | Cash | $1,000 | Quarter size hail fell near the intersection of Highway 67 and Highway 226 near the town of Cash. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cash | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | $500 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Cash | $50 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Cash | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cash | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cash | - | Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Cash. |
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Cash | - | Heavy rain flooded some county roads over western portions of Craighead County. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Cash | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Cash | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1870690 | 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 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.






