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East Camden, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bradley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71701. The Survey maps it on the East Camden quadrangle. 798 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

East Camden within Ouachita County

Population over time

2 figures

East Camden fell from 931 to 798 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
2010931
2020798-133 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

153 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of East Camden between 1997 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4

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 2006Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita 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 East Camden: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Camden in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$40,000A tree was blown down onto a house in East Camden. The damage was confirmed via a photo on social media and relayed by KATV.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$35,000The new roof was torn off the fire station in East Camden and some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$20,000Trees were blown down and shingles were blown off roofs. A large trampoline was wrapped around a utility pole.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$15,000Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$5,000The roof was blown off a mobile home.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Camden$5,000Several trees were blown down on Arkansas 274.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Camden-Multiple trees were blown down and a few buildings experienced roof damage in the town of East Camden.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Camden-Power lines and power poles were blown down across the town of Camden.
April 2021FloodEast Camden-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Ouachita River at Camden in early April.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Camden-A large tree was blown down onto a home.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Camden-A tree fell on a house. Nobody was home at the time.
November 2017HailEast Camden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Lakeside2.1 miles16
Camark2.2 miles15
Vanduzer3.5 miles15
Warner3.7 miles15
Harmony Grove3.7 miles15
Kent4.1 miles15
Lilley (historical)4.2 miles16
Onalaska (historical)4.3 miles16

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 East CamdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2629213The 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 57693. 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.