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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.

Lake City within Craighead County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,082
20202,326+244 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 1998

Regional 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 burning2

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
19 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Tornado (F2)Lake City$150,000The 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 2001Thunderstorm WindLake City$25,000Some warehouses were damaged. Many trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLake City$15,000One home was damaged. A few trees and power poles were also blown down.
April 2022HailLake City$10,000Fire service vehicle damaged by softball-sized hail.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLake City$10,000Power poles down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLake City$10,000Trees are uprooted in Lake City.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLake City$10,000Several transformers were knocked down.
April 2008HailLake City$1,500no account filed
March 2002HailLake City$100no account filed
July 1997HailLake City$10no account filed
April 2022HailLake City-Hail measured at one inch.
April 2017HailLake City-Dime to penny size hail in Lake City.
June 2010Flash FloodLake City-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Lake City. Several roads were flooded as a result.
April 2009Flash FloodLake City-Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Highway 18 in Lake City.
May 2009Flash FloodLake City-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Lake City. Several streets were flooded throughout the city.
May 2020HailLake City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Southland1.6 miles10
Poplar Ridge1.8 miles10
Cane Island (historical)2.1 miles10
Bowman3.1 miles10
Sandy3.5 miles10
Black Oak3.8 miles10
Pekin (historical)3.9 miles10
Claunch4.1 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 Lake CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2523959The 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.