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Coy, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Indian Bayou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72046. It stands on Bakers Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Humnoke quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Coy within Lonoke County

Population over time

3 figures

Coy fell from 116 to 87 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
2000116
201096-20 (-17%)
202087-9 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Coy between 2000 and 2016, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning1

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
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 March 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 February 2016Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coy in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Coy$1,750,000A tornado destroyed grain bins, overturned irrigation pivots, and tore much of the roof off of a large farm shop. A tractor-trailer truck on U.S. Highway 165 was overturned. Power poles were broken and trees were blown down. One tree fell into a house.
May 2019Flash FloodCoy-Widespread street flooding was reported in Coy.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCoy-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a house and also downed some large tree limbs.
January 2012Funnel CloudCoy-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F1)Coy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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
Tomberlin1.6 miles15
Ryan2.5 miles15
Boyd (historical)2.7 miles15
Blakemore4.6 miles15
Allport4.8 miles15
England5.0 miles15
Seaton5.5 miles15
Humnoke6.2 miles15

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 CoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2610841The 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 57595. 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.