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.
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
St. Francis River Bridgelisted 1990- Scott Bond Family Plotlisted 2002
Population over time
3 figuresMadison 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 987 | |
| 2010 | 769 | -218 (-22%) |
| 2020 | 759 | -10 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1940 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Whitmore quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Memphis West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 June 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | ST 2818500 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colvins Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Forrest City Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison | $5,000 | Around 10 trees were blown down. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Madison | $1,000 | Numerous roads were flooded. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Madison | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Madison | $50 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison | - | Multiple down trees and damaged signs east of Forrest City. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison | - | Straight line winds knocked a few trees down just north of Madison. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Creek | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Widener | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Vernon (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Monica | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Forrest City | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Wyles (historical) | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Harris | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Riverside | 4.1 miles | 20 |
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 Madison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79656 | 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 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.







