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Center Ridge, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lick Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72027. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Center Ridge within Conway County

Population over time

2 figures

Center Ridge fell from 388 to 290 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
2010388
2020290-98 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

286 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Center Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,405 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 172 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/incendiarism172
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Ridge in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 flash 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$500,000At least five houses had roof damage and at least fifteen homes had some form of minor damage. Much of a chicken house that was under construction was blown down. This particular chicken house was being rebuilt after having been blown down by a tornado on May 2nd. Two additional chicken houses were missing roofs. Trees and power lines were down, with one tree through a house. Arkansas Highway 9 was closed for a time due to a gas leak. The leak was caused when part of a pump house blew down onto a gas pipeline.
May 2009Flash FloodCenter Ridge$250,000Flooding occurred on Arkansas Highway 124 in Jerusalem. A family was trapped inside a mobile home due to high water. Several streets in Morrilton were closed due to flooding. A fishing pier on Lake Overcup was partially submerged.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$75,000A roof was blown off a house, a barn was damaged, and trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several barns and utility buildings.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$40,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the Center Ridge area. About 2,000 electric customers lost power.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Center Ridge$35,000An EF1 tornado in the Center Ridge area blew down trees. One of the falling trees damaged the roof of a house and knocked the back porch off the same house. Another falling tree landed on the house across the street. Temperatures were in the lower 50's at the time of the tornado.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$25,000Several roofs were damaged in the Center Ridge area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$20,000The emergency manager reported several homes and mobile homes were damaged in the Center Ridge area. One camper was destroyed and several trees were down as well.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$20,000Power lines were blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$20,000Thunderstorm winds took much of the roof off a small barn, destroyed a shed, broke two power poles, and blew trees down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$10,000Trees were blown down and small metal sheds were damaged.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge$10,000Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 9 near Center Ridge.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-A metal barn sustained roof damage near Center Ridge.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Several trees were blown down in this area.
July 2024Heavy RainCenter Ridge-A report was corrected for additional rainfall; however this additional rainfall fell over a 26 hour period not a 24 hour period. A 26 hour rainfall total of 6.60 inches was measured at Center Ridge.
July 2024Heavy RainCenter Ridge-A 24 hour rainfall total of 5.90 inches was measured at Center Ridge.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-A report was received of a downed tree blocking Hwy. 9, north of Center Ridge.
April 2017Heavy RainCenter Ridge-The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.85 inches.
September 2011HailCenter Ridge-Quarter size hail nearly covered the ground at the observer's house.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs, with an antenna blown off of a house just north of Center Ridge.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-A few trees and large tree limbs downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Two houses had roof damage, with a tree blown onto a vehicle near Center Ridge.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a barn.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-A roof was blown off a house.
April 1994HailCenter Ridge-Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several barns and utility buildings.
April 2006HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
April 2006HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
January 1999HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
February 1996HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
June 1996HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCenter Ridge-no account filed
January 1994HailCenter Ridge-no account filed
January 1994HailCenter Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Pleasant Hill1.5 miles16
Catholic Point2.1 miles16
Grandview2.3 miles16
Friendship2.9 miles16
Sunnyside3.4 miles17
Lick Mountain3.8 miles17
Cedar Creek3.8 miles16
Middleton4.7 miles17

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 Center RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5059341The 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 76571. 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.