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Hermitage, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 8. It lies in ZIP code area 71647. It stands on Brushy L'Aigle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hermitage quadrangle. 525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Hermitage within Bradley County

On record in Hermitage

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hermitage fell from 830 to 525 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
2010830
2020525-305 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

83 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Hermitage between 2001 and 2020, burning about 517 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hermitage: 15 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hermitage in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 4 flash flood, 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
December 2015Tornado (EF1)Hermitage$75,000A metal roof of a sidewalk awning was removed at the Hermitage School. Part of the roof of a chicken house was peeled back north of Hermitage. A shed was destroyed near Farmville along with some minor damage to a home. Many trees were either snapped or uprooted.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindHermitage$10,000Trees were blown down on Bradley Roads 5, 32, and 41.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHermitage$10,000Trees were blown down on Arkansas 160. Power outages occurred in Hermitage.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHermitage$10,000Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 160 near Hermitage.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHermitage$5,000Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a barn and downed some power lines.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHermitage$2,000The roof of a storage shed was blown into the street.
July 2010Flash FloodHermitage$1,000Widespread street flooding occurred.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHermitage$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
December 2021HailHermitage-Quarter size hail was reported at the Dollar General store in Hermitage.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Trees were blown down in Hermitage. A school in Hermitage sustained roof damage.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Additional straight-line wind damage occurred to the Hermitage School.
April 2019Flash FloodHermitage-Water was high enough to be over several county roads near Hermitage.
April 2019HailHermitage-Received a report of one inch hail in Hermitage via a Twitter picture.
February 2018FloodHermitage-Arkansas State Police Troop F reported all lanes of Highway 160 east of Hermitage are blocked due to flooding.
June 2018Flash FloodHermitage-Flash flooding was reported along Highway 160 as well as Bradley 33 near the town of Hermitage. Roads were impassable due to high water.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Power lines were knocked down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Some large limbs were knocked down.
June 2001Flash FloodHermitage-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding along Highway 160 west of Hermitage.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees around Hermitage.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHermitage-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
October 2010HailHermitage-no account filed
April 2008HailHermitage-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindHermitage-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindHermitage-no account filed
June 2004HailHermitage-no account filed
May 2001HailHermitage-no account filed
October 2001HailHermitage-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHermitage-no account filed
February 2000HailHermitage-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHermitage-no account filed
July 1997HailHermitage-no account filed
July 1997HailHermitage-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindHermitage-no account filed
April 1996HailHermitage-no account filed
July 1994HailHermitage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Gravelridge2.4 miles18
Greenville3.0 miles18
Pattsville3.6 miles18
Simpson3.8 miles18
Castleberry (historical)4.1 miles18
Sandtuck (historical)4.3 miles18
Ingalls4.5 miles18
Farmville4.9 miles13

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 HermitageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2196796The 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 57909. 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.