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Colt, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Telico Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72326. The Survey maps it on the Wynne quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Colt within St. Francis County

On record in Colt

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Colt fell from 368 to 293 between 2000 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
2000368
2010378+10 (+3%)
2020293-85 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Colt between 1998 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minor53 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Colt: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Crisp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Forrest City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St.Francis Materials CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woods Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colt in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Flash FloodColt$500,000Very heavy rainfall occurred across much of St. Francis County. Over 7 inches of rain was recorded at Wheatley. Many roads were flooded across the county and homes were evacuated in Madison due to flooding along Crow Creek. Five families were evacuated from homes in the Stonebrook subdicison in Forrest City.
April 2001HailColt$10,000Thirty-three cars on a used car lot in Colt were damaged by the hail.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindColt$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindColt$3,000Several trees were blown down from straight line winds blocking Highway 306 East, 3 miles east of Colt.
April 2000HailColt$1,500Hail ranged in size from dime to golfball.
January 2012HailColt$1,000Quarter size hail fell near State Highway 306 and State Highway 193 just west of Colt.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindColt$1,000A large sign was blown down.
April 2002HailColt$750no account filed
April 1998HailColt$750no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Colt$50A tornado briefly touched down just west of Colt producing minimal damage.
March 2002HailColt$10no account filed
April 2026Flash FloodColt-Several roads around Colt were flooded and impassable.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindColt-Straight-line winds caused damage near Colt on Highway 306.
March 2016HailColt-Ping pong size hail fell near Colt.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindColt-Straight line winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines across North Central and Northeast St. Francis County.
July 1994HailColt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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
Rosenbaum1.9 miles12
Shiloh2.1 miles12
Caldwell3.9 miles12
Meadow Cliff4.2 miles12
Union Hill4.9 miles12
Newcastle5.3 miles14
Harris5.6 miles12
Telico (historical)5.7 miles12

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 ColtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80162The 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 83105. 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.