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College Station, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Big Rock Township. It lies near Picron Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Home quadrangle. 469 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

College Station within Pulaski County

Population over time

2 figures

College Station fell from 600 to 469 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
2010600
2020469-131 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of College Station between 1997 and 2019, burning about 397 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2016Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of College Station: 26 unknowns, 13 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Construction Products DivisionVermiculiteProducer
Fourche Bayou DepositNiobium (Columbium)Occurrence
Little Rock PlantAluminum, ClayUnknown
Big Sandy No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Little Rock Plant and DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Elkins PitClayProducer
HoffmanClayProducer
Little Rock Industrial Minerals PntClayProducer
Arch Street PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arch Street QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Station in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Tornado (EF0)College Station$250,000This was the third of five tornadoes spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm. Industrial buildings in the Little Rock River Port had damage to sheet metal on their sides and roofs. The roof of one home was damaged, as were some farm outbuildings. Trees and power lines were blown down. The tornado exited Pulaski County south-southeast of Jacksonville and entered Lonoke County north of Kerr.
April 2011Funnel CloudCollege Station-A funnel cloud was reported south of Adams Field.
April 2011Funnel CloudCollege Station-The weather observer at Adams Field sighted a funnel cloud south of the airport.
May 2003Tornado (F0)College Station-A weak tornado briefly touched down over eastern Pulaski County about 2.3 miles northeast of College Station. The tornado traveled to the northeast for about 4.7 miles before dissipating. The only damage noted were some twisted tree limbs and some small trees that were blown down or twisted off.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Picron0.4 miles23
Fourche (historical)0.9 miles23
Gillam Park1.8 miles26
Sweet Home1.9 miles23
Biddle2.2 miles26
Fairview3.0 miles26
Willowdale (historical)3.1 miles23
Charity (historical)3.4 miles23

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 College StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668982The 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 57804. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.