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Etowah, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72428. It lies near Jacksons Island. The Survey maps it on the Etowah quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Etowah within Mississippi County

On record in Etowah

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Etowah fell from 366 to 254 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
2000366
2010351-15 (-4%)
2020254-97 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Etowah in 1999, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 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
6 August 1999Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etowah in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEtowah$2,000Large tree down near the intersection of Highway 136 and County Road 634 in Etowah.
April 2022HailEtowah-Golf ball-sized hail measured in Etowah.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEtowah-Straight line winds produced widespread damage in Mississippi County. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down. Three tractor-trailers and one camper overturned on Interstate 55 near Osceola. Construction barrels were also blown around on the interstate.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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 Way2.2 miles9
Carrol Corner2.8 miles9
Mandalay3.5 miles11
West Ridge3.5 miles11
Athelstan3.6 miles9
Milligan Ridge3.7 miles10
Lennie3.9 miles11
Floodway4.5 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 EtowahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1868574The 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 57729. 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.