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Lepanto, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72354. The Survey maps it on the Lepanto quadrangle. 1,732 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Lepanto within Poinsett County

On record in Lepanto

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lepanto fell from 1,893 to 1,732 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
20101,893
20201,732-161 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lepanto in 1998, burning about 1 acre 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 burning1

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
30 March 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett 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 Lepanto: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
G CantrellSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lepanto in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2002HailLepanto$3,000,000One hundred were damaged at a Ford dealership in Trumann. Over 2,000 cars in the area were damaged by the hail. Many homes were also damaged. The Trumann schools had at least 100 windows broken.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLepanto$75,000Trees down on roads and houses in Lepanto.
January 1996Tornado (F0)Lepanto$50,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto$10,000Straight line winds knocked a large tree down onto a house causing extensive damage in Lepanto.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Trees down across Lepanto.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Power poles down on Highway 14 at Mississippi/Poinsett County line.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1995HailLepanto$5,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$2,000House damaged.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLepanto$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLepanto$1,000Large tree branches were knocked down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$1,000Part of roof torn off the Lepanto Museum.
March 2008HailLepanto$1,000Penny size hail cracked a picture window and a windshield near Lepanto.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Lepanto$1,000A tornado briefly touched down knocking over a couple of trees.
February 2008HailLepanto$1,000no account filed
March 1996HailLepanto$1,000no account filed
March 2002HailLepanto$750no account filed
May 1998HailLepanto$750no account filed
January 1999HailLepanto$100no account filed
May 1998HailLepanto$50no account filed
April 1998HailLepanto$50no account filed
February 2001HailLepanto$10no account filed
July 1998HailLepanto$10no account filed
October 2022HailLepanto-Measured hail of 2.00 inches fell in Lepanto.
May 2020HailLepanto-Hail up to the size of quarters fell just southeast of Lepanto.
March 2016HailLepanto-Quarter size hail fell in Lepanto.
January 2010HailLepanto-Pea to penny size hail fell in LePanto.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto-Straight line winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines in Lepanto. In addition, a portion of a fence was blown down.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto-Straight line winds knocked down several tree limbs in Lepanto.
May 2025HailLepanto-no account filed
May 2021HailLepanto-no account filed
July 2009HailLepanto-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindLepanto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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
Alto2.8 miles11
Frys Mill4.3 miles11
Rivervale4.4 miles11
Spear Lake4.4 miles11
Wilbeth5.3 miles11
Dub6.3 miles11
Donnick6.6 miles11
Cypress (historical)6.8 miles11

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 LepantoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79466The 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 77476. 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.