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.
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
Lepanto Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2009- Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hutlisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresLepanto 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,893 | |
| 2020 | 1,732 | -161 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Marked Tree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lepanto quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G Cantrell | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
33 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Hail | Lepanto | $3,000,000 | One 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $75,000 | Trees down on roads and houses in Lepanto. |
| January 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Lepanto | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $10,000 | Straight line winds knocked a large tree down onto a house causing extensive damage in Lepanto. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $5,000 | Trees down across Lepanto. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $5,000 | Power poles down on Highway 14 at Mississippi/Poinsett County line. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Lepanto | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $2,000 | House damaged. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $1,000 | Large tree branches were knocked down. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | $1,000 | Part of roof torn off the Lepanto Museum. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lepanto | $1,000 | Penny size hail cracked a picture window and a windshield near Lepanto. |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Lepanto | $1,000 | A tornado briefly touched down knocking over a couple of trees. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Lepanto | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Lepanto | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Lepanto | $750 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lepanto | $750 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Lepanto | $100 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lepanto | $50 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Lepanto | $50 | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Hail | Lepanto | $10 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Lepanto | $10 | no account filed |
| October 2022 | Hail | Lepanto | - | Measured hail of 2.00 inches fell in Lepanto. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Lepanto | - | Hail up to the size of quarters fell just southeast of Lepanto. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Lepanto | - | Quarter size hail fell in Lepanto. |
| January 2010 | Hail | Lepanto | - | Pea to penny size hail fell in LePanto. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | - | Straight line winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines in Lepanto. In addition, a portion of a fence was blown down. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | - | Straight line winds knocked down several tree limbs in Lepanto. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Lepanto | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lepanto | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Lepanto | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lepanto | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alto | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Frys Mill | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Rivervale | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Spear Lake | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wilbeth | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Dub | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Donnick | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cypress (historical) | 6.8 miles | 11 |
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 Lepanto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79466 | 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 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.





