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Central City, Arkansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72941. It stands on Grayson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barling quadrangle. 461 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Central City within Sebastian County

Population over time

2 figures

Central City fell from 502 to 461 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
2010502
2020461-41 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Central City between 1997 and 2016, burning about 408 acres in total. 1 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance112 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2010Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central City in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCentral City$200,000Strong thunderstorm wind severely damaged several commercial buildings, snapped or uprooted several trees, damaged the roofs of several homes, damaged privacy fences, and blew down power lines. A trained storm spotter measured 78 mph wind gusts in this area at the time.
March 2006HailCentral City$25,000no account filed
April 2018Thunderstorm WindCentral City-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree just west of the intersection of Highways 22 and 255.
December 2015FloodCentral City-Highway 255 northeast of Central City was closed due to flooding.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCentral City-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCentral City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCentral City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2009HailCentral City-no account filed
April 2008HailCentral City-no account filed
March 2006HailCentral City-no account filed
May 2006HailCentral City-no account filed
November 2004HailCentral City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Barling2.7 miles25
Diamond Grove2.9 miles25
Fort Chaffee2.9 miles25
Lavaca4.3 miles25
Massard5.1 miles25
Carnis5.6 miles21
New Jenny Lind5.8 miles25
Jenny Lind5.9 miles25

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 Central CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1982379The 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 76575. 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.