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Felsenthal, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. It lies near Gum Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Huttig quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Felsenthal within Union County

Population over time

2 figures

Felsenthal fell from 150 to 85 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
2010150
202085-65 (-43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Felsenthal between 1995 and 2019, burning about 670 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony3.4 acresFelsenthal National Wildlife RefugeOLD NUMBER 75 FIRE
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Felsenthal in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindFelsenthal-Tree downed across a road in the Felsenthal community.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFelsenthal-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down near and east of the Felsenthal community, especially along Old Lock 6 Road. Loggers, several residents, and fishermen were trapped by the fallen trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFelsenthal-Four power poles were broken near the Felsenthal Lock and Dam just east of the Felsenthal community. Power was out between the Felsenthal community and the Lock and Dam, as well as along Old Lock 6 Road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindFelsenthal-A tree was downed over the road between Huttig and Felsenthal, Arkansas.
April 1994HailFelsenthal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Dollar Junction1.8 miles18
Huttig1.9 miles18
Bolding4.2 miles18
Old Lapile4.8 miles18
Lapile6.4 miles16
New Union8.4 miles19
Sawmill8.6 miles16
Victoria9.3 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 FelsenthalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2661796The 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 49023. 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.