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Madison, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72359. It stands on Crow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle. 759 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Madison within St. Francis County

On record in Madison

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

3 figures

Madison fell from 987 to 759 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
2000987
2010769-218 (-22%)
2020759-10 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Madison between 1997 and 2017, burning about 356 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
3 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2014Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionST 2818500

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Madison: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Colvins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Forrest City Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMadison$5,000Around 10 trees were blown down.
May 2002Flash FloodMadison$1,000Numerous roads were flooded.
April 2007HailMadison$1,000no account filed
August 2003HailMadison$50no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMadison-Multiple down trees and damaged signs east of Forrest City.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindMadison-Straight line winds knocked a few trees down just north of Madison.

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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
Crow Creek0.7 miles14
Widener2.1 miles14
Mount Vernon (historical)3.5 miles12
Monica3.6 miles16
Forrest City3.6 miles12
Wyles (historical)3.8 miles20
Harris3.8 miles12
Riverside4.1 miles20

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 MadisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79656The 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 83210. 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.