Cedarville, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72932. It stands on Little Webber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rudy quadrangle. 1,424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
On record in Cedarville
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 3 records
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segmentlisted 2009
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segmentlisted 2009
Cedarville School Buildinglisted 1992
Population over time
10 figuresCedarville grew from 97 to 1,424 between 1880 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 97 | |
| 1890 | 80 | -17 (-18%) |
| 1910 | 54 | -26 (-32%) |
| 1930 | 58 | +4 (+7%) |
| 1940 | 111 | +53 (+91%) |
| 1950 | 43 | -68 (-61%) |
| 1960 | 52 | +9 (+21%) |
| 2000 | 1,133 | |
| 2010 | 1,394 | +261 (+23%) |
| 2020 | 1,424 | +30 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1898 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Winslow #3 quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Rudy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
145 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,764 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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 burning | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | SHILOH RD. |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | SHILOH |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BRAWNER LOOP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house. |
| December 2010 | Hail | Cedarville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Cedarville | - | The Thompson Road bridge was closed due to high water. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | - | Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs on Highway 59 near Cedarville. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Cedarville | - | Highway 59 was flooded from Natural Dam to Cedarville. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Cedarville | - | Flood water flowed over portions of Mill Pond Road southeast of town. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. |
| March 1999 | Hail | Cedarville | - | There was a report of quarter-sized hail in Cedarville, and there was another report of quarter-sized hail 2 miles south of Cedarville. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Cedarville | - | A funnel cloud was observed by the public. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Cedarville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down two barns and damaged a chicken house. A fence was also destroyed and several trees were uprooted. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| March 2018 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| February 2013 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Cedarville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Cedarville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dripping Springs | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Hobbtown | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Figure Five | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Uniontown | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Natural Dam | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Rena | 5.7 miles | 28 | |
| Rudy | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Barcelona | 5.9 miles | 16 |
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 Cedarville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79431 | 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 76564. 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.








