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Gould, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gould Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71643. The Survey maps it on the Gould quadrangle. 663 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Gould within Lincoln County

Population over time

3 figures

Gould fell from 1,305 to 663 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
20001,305
2010837-468 (-36%)
2020663-174 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gould between 2006 and 2010, burning about 6 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 burning2

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 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gould in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindGould$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindGould$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindGould$5,000Some trees were downed.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindGould-The wind blew trees down.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Gould-A weak tornado touched down briefly near the Arkansas River levee. A number of trees in the area had their tops twisted off.
April 2011HailGould-no account filed
April 2011HailGould-no account filed
October 2010HailGould-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindGould-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGould-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGould-no account filed
February 1999HailGould-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGould-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindGould-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Flynn1.6 miles13
Cades2.5 miles15
Mills4.0 miles13
Douglas4.2 miles15
Varner4.8 miles15
Champion (historical)5.4 miles13
Cummins5.5 miles15
South Bend (historical)6.3 miles12

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 GouldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79495The 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 77045. 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.