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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.

Guion within Izard County

Population over time

3 figures

Guion 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.

YearPeople Change
200090
201086-4 (-4%)
202068-18 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

120 since 1997

Regional 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/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning21
Natural1

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
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2004Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arkansas Limestone Co.Limestone, Dimension, Aluminum, StoneUnknownBedded high calcium limestone
Canard-CajunClay, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
E.B.MathesonIronProducer
Guion Mine & PlantSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMassive bedded St. Peter Sandstone
Rangaire Love Hollow MineCalciumProducer
Stone Produducts Corp.QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownBedded limestone - Kimmswick formation
Williamson PropertyLimestone, High CalciumUnknownBedded limestone
Bolt SpurLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Meyersville SpurStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Tornado (EF3)Guion2 killed, 20 hurt, $11,500,000The 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 2011HailGuion-no account filed
May 2008HailGuion-no account filed
April 2004HailGuion-no account filed
June 2004HailGuion-no account filed
June 2004HailGuion-no account filed
September 2003Flash FloodGuion-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGuion-no account filed
May 2000HailGuion-no account filed
April 1993HailGuion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Wolquarry2.5 miles14
Nasco3.6 miles14
Myersville4.4 miles14
Crocker5.1 miles19
Twin Creek5.3 miles16
Lunenburg5.6 miles10
Gid5.8 miles19
Lone Star6.0 miles10

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 GuionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2098285The 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.