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Lonsdale, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Whittington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72087. It stands on Pleasant Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lonsdale quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Lonsdale within Garland County

Population over time

3 figures

Lonsdale fell from 118 to 103 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
2000118
201094-24 (-20%)
2020103+9 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

100 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Lonsdale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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
Arson/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lonsdale: 5 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Congo PitTalc-SoapstoneProducer
No NameStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Old Spanish DiggingsGoldProspect
Baroid Sales Div.Barium-BaritePast Producer
Chamberlin Creek SynclineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Cove Creek SynclineBarium-BariteUnknown
Lucinda Creek SynclineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Magnet Cove Barium Corp.Barium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonsdale in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2009LightningLonsdale1 hurtAn electric utility worker was injured by lightning while putting equipment in his truck.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLonsdale$50,000Some trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLonsdale$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Lonsdale.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindLonsdale$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2023HailLonsdale-Quarter sized hail fell in Lonsdale.
June 2023HailLonsdale-Golf ball sized hail fell at Lonsdale.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-A tree was downed onto AR-Highway 128.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-Trees were down on Highway 128 between Lonsdale and Fountain Lake.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-Limbs were blown down by winds.
December 2002Funnel CloudLonsdale-A trained weather spotter observed a funnel cloud 2 miles north of Lonsdale.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of a few buildings.
March 2010HailLonsdale-no account filed
April 2009HailLonsdale-no account filed
February 2000HailLonsdale-no account filed
May 1998HailLonsdale-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLonsdale-no account filed
May 1996HailLonsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Meaford (historical)3.5 miles15
High Point (historical)4.7 miles14
Gulpha (historical)7.4 miles14
Price8.7 miles12
Dripping Springs (historical)9.2 miles14
Potash Sulphur Springs (historical)9.5 miles12
Fountain Lake9.7 miles14
Lake Catherine10.3 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 LonsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357730The 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 51451. 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.