Egypt, Arkansas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Promised Land Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. The Survey maps it on the Cash quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEgypt grew from 112 to 113 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 113 | +1 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Cash quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Egypt between 1999 and 2019, burning about 436 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Smoking | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Egypt: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery Prospect | Manganese | Prospect |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egypt in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Egypt | 2 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Egypt | $50,000 | The tornado started southwest of Egypt and moved northeast into Lawrence county. Two residences were destroyed. An antenna was blown down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt | $10,000 | Some trees and powerlines were knocked down along Highway 91 just north of Egypt. |
| February 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt | $10,000 | Trees down in western Craighead county in the Eqypt area. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt | $10,000 | Some shingles were blown off of a house. Some large trees limbs were knocked down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down across the northern part of Craighead county. Most of the downed trees were between Brookland and Goobertown. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Egypt | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Egypt | $50 | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Hail | Egypt | $50 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Egypt | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding on roads in Egypt. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Egypt | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding southeast of Egypt. Water covered Highway 91 as a result. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Egypt | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Egypt | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Egypt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2083973 | The 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 57707. 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.






