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Hindsville, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72738. It lies near Tater Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hindsville quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,368 feet above sea level.

Hindsville within Madison County

Population over time

3 figures

Hindsville grew from 75 to 90 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
200075
201061-14 (-19%)
202090+29 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hindsville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 172 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
10 August 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2005Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 November 2002Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 November 2012Recreation and ceremony15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hindsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
May A SmithLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hindsville in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Hindsville$150,000A tornado destroyed a couple outbuildings, damaged the roofs of several homes, uprooted numerous trees, snapped several hardwood trees, and blew down numerous large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
April 2008Flash FloodHindsville$50,000Heavy rains caused flooded roads throughout a large part of the county. The rain also damaged the roads.
April 2026HailHindsville$25,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2011HailHindsville$25,000no account filed
May 2009HailHindsville$25,000no account filed
April 2006HailHindsville$10,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindHindsville$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped numerous large tree limbs and blew down a few trees. A shed was also destroyed by the wind.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHindsville$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down trees and blew part of a roof off a restaurant.
April 1996HailHindsville$3,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodHindsville-Heavy rain caused Glade Creek to flood. Water from the creek was a foot deep on Highway 412.
March 2008Flash FloodHindsville-Heavy rain caused water to flow over some secondary roads.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindHindsville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour split several large tree limbs and trees.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindHindsville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHindsville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large trees.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHindsville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down onto Highway 45.
May 1997HailHindsville-A severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail 1 mile south of Hindsville.
March 2023HailHindsville-no account filed
April 2020HailHindsville-no account filed
April 2009HailHindsville-no account filed
October 2008HailHindsville-no account filed
October 2008HailHindsville-no account filed
October 2007HailHindsville-no account filed
March 2006HailHindsville-no account filed
April 2006HailHindsville-no account filed
May 2002HailHindsville-no account filed
May 1995HailHindsville-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHindsville-no account filed
April 1994HailHindsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Whitener1.8 miles14
Buckeye3.4 miles14
Hartwell3.6 miles12
Mante (historical)4.9 miles12
Cross Roads5.4 miles14
Clifty7.3 miles14
Huntsville7.6 miles13
Roxton8.1 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 HindsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2460856The 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 50141. 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.