Lake City, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lake City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72437. The Survey maps it on the Lake City quadrangle. 2,326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.
On record in Lake City
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
St. Francis River Bridgelisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresLake City grew from 2,082 to 2,326 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,082 | |
| 2020 | 2,326 | +244 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake City between 1998 and 2000, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Lake City | $150,000 | The tornado started just southwest of Lake City and tracked northeast reaching the northwest corner of Lake City and then continued northeast. Two homes were destroyed and five others were damaged in Lake City. An electrical substation was badly damaged. Several trees and power lines were also blown down. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $25,000 | Some warehouses were damaged. Many trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $15,000 | One home was damaged. A few trees and power poles were also blown down. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lake City | $10,000 | Fire service vehicle damaged by softball-sized hail. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $10,000 | Power poles down. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $10,000 | Trees are uprooted in Lake City. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City | $10,000 | Several transformers were knocked down. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lake City | $1,500 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Lake City | $100 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake City | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lake City | - | Hail measured at one inch. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lake City | - | Dime to penny size hail in Lake City. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Lake City | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Lake City. Several roads were flooded as a result. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Lake City | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Highway 18 in Lake City. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Lake City | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Lake City. Several streets were flooded throughout the city. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Lake City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southland | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Poplar Ridge | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cane Island (historical) | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Bowman | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Sandy | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Black Oak | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Pekin (historical) | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Claunch | 4.1 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 Lake City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2523959 | 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 77429. 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.





