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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.

Egypt within Craighead County

Population over time

2 figures

Egypt 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.

YearPeople Change
2010112
2020113+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

13 since 1999

Regional 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
24 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2006Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montgomery ProspectManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Tornado (F3)Egypt2 hurt, $25,000no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Egypt$50,000The tornado started southwest of Egypt and moved northeast into Lawrence county. Two residences were destroyed. An antenna was blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEgypt$10,000Some trees and powerlines were knocked down along Highway 91 just north of Egypt.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindEgypt$10,000Trees down in western Craighead county in the Eqypt area.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindEgypt$10,000Some shingles were blown off of a house. Some large trees limbs were knocked down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEgypt$5,000Some trees were knocked down across the northern part of Craighead county. Most of the downed trees were between Brookland and Goobertown.
May 2008HailEgypt$1,000no account filed
June 2004HailEgypt$50no account filed
January 2000HailEgypt$50no account filed
March 2008Flash FloodEgypt-Heavy rain produced flash flooding on roads in Egypt.
August 2008Flash FloodEgypt-Heavy rain produced flash flooding southeast of Egypt. Water covered Highway 91 as a result.
April 2020HailEgypt-no account filed
April 2011HailEgypt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Three Way2.9 miles11
Winesburg2.9 miles11
Dryden3.0 miles11
Scarb (historical)3.9 miles11
Nemo4.5 miles11
Cash5.1 miles11
Nalle6.0 miles11
Fisher6.3 miles11

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 EgyptAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2083973The 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.