Guion, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Guion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72540. It stands on Rocky Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Guion quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGuion fell from 90 to 68 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 90 | |
| 2010 | 86 | -4 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 68 | -18 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1890 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Guion quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
120 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Guion between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,023 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 71 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Guion: 8 unknowns, 7 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Limestone Co. | Limestone, Dimension, Aluminum, Stone | Unknown | Bedded high calcium limestone | |
| Canard-Cajun | Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer | ||
| E.B.Matheson | Iron | Producer | ||
| Guion Mine & Plant | Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Massive bedded St. Peter Sandstone | |
| Rangaire Love Hollow Mine | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Stone Produducts Corp.Quarry | Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | Bedded limestone - Kimmswick formation | |
| Williamson Property | Limestone, High Calcium | Unknown | Bedded limestone | |
| Bolt Spur | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Meyersville Spur | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guion in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Tornado (EF3) | Guion | 2 killed, 20 hurt, $11,500,000 | The tornado moved out of Stone County, northeast of Mountain View, into Izard County, just northwest of Guion. A survey by the Federal Emergency Management Agency indicated 106 residential structures (houses and mobile homes) suffered damage. This included 43 residences destroyed, 14 with major damage, 36 with minor damage, and 13 others affected. A cattle farmer lost hundreds of cattle to the tornado. Two fatalities occurred: One in a mobile home in the Rose Trail area, and the other in a mobile home at Zion. The tornado continued into Sharp County, in the area northwest of Evening Shade. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Guion | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Guion | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Guion | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Guion | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolquarry | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Nasco | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Myersville | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Crocker | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Twin Creek | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Lunenburg | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Gid | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lone Star | 6.0 miles | 10 |
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 Guion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2098285 | 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 77083. 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.





