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Hartford, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72938. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Hartford within Sebastian County

On record in Hartford

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hartford fell from 642 to 499 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
2010642
2020499-143 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Hartford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,941 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2026HailHartford$150,000Hail up to tennis ball size damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)West Hartford$100,000A tornado destroyed a large barn and uprooted trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 95 mph.
May 2022HailHartford$30,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2011HailHartford$25,000no account filed
April 2026HailHartford$20,000Hail up to golf ball size damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2020HailHartford$20,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHartford$20,000Strong winds caused much damage in the Hartford area. All roads in and out of Hartford, except AR Hwy 96, were blocked by fallen trees and power lines. One residence had an electric meter torn off, a barn lost its roof, and the school gymnasium lost its roof. At least one house in Hartford lost its roof. Numerous tree and power lines were blown down.
March 2019HailHartford$15,000no account filed
May 1998LightningHartford$500Lightning hit a transformer, causing a small power outage in Hartford.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindHartford$200Sheet metal blown off shed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHartford$100A tree was blown across SH 96 between Mansfield and Hartford.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHartford$100A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed numerous large tree limbs in Hartford.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHartford-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 45 northeast of Hartford.
April 2025Flash FloodHartford-Multiple roads in and around Hartford were closed due to flooding.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHartford-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHartford-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2020Tornado (EFU)West Hartford-A brief tornado developed in heavily-wooded terrain in southern Sebastian County. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature on the KSRX WSR-88D, which was likely the result of tree damage, given the fact it occurred in dense forest. The area where the tornado developed was inaccessible by road, therefore the tornado was rated EF-unknown, since the damage could not be reviewed by a survey team.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Hartford-A developing storm produced an apparent weak landspout tornado that briefly touched down in open country.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHartford-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHartford-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHartford-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHartford-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
March 2009HailHartford-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHartford-no account filed
December 2003HailHartford-no account filed
December 2003HailHartford-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindHartford-no account filed
May 2003HailHartford-no account filed
May 2003HailHartford-no account filed
April 2002HailHartford-no account filed
September 2001HailHartford-no account filed
January 1999HailHartford-no account filed
May 1998HailHartford-no account filed
May 1998HailHartford-no account filed
February 1998HailHartford-no account filed
May 1994HailHartford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Frog Town1.8 miles24
West Hartford2.0 miles23
Patterson2.4 miles21
Prairie Creek2.6 miles24
Apex3.3 miles21
Midland5.1 miles24
Burna5.6 miles24
Arkola5.7 miles24

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 HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80181The 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 77137. 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.