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Mansfield, Arkansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72944. It stands on Coop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 1,053 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Mansfield within Sebastian County

On record in Mansfield

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mansfield fell from 1,139 to 1,053 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
20101,139
20201,053-86 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

112 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian 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 Mansfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Sebastian County PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
June 2013Flash FloodMansfield$50,000Flash flooding damaged a bridge.
May 2025HailMansfield$25,000Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2020HailMansfield$25,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindMansfield$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home and destroyed a metal barn.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMansfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMansfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew tree limbs and power lines down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMansfield$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100Several tree limbs were blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100A large tree was blown down in Mansfield
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2022FloodMansfield-Portions of several roads were flooded in and around Mansfield.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs on Highway 378.
December 2015FloodMansfield-Numerous roads were reported closed due to flooding.
June 2013Flash FloodMansfield-Highway 71 north of Mansfield was closed briefly due to high water.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees.
June 1998Funnel CloudMansfield-Report from Sebastian S.O.
April 2015HailMansfield-no account filed
February 2013HailMansfield-no account filed
April 2011HailMansfield-no account filed
April 2011HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2008HailMansfield-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
December 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
December 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
May 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
November 2001HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2000HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2000HailMansfield-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
January 1999HailMansfield-no account filed
May 1999HailMansfield-no account filed
January 1995HailMansfield-no account filed
January 1995HailMansfield-no account filed
April 1994HailMansfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Huntington1.7 miles24
Liberty2.5 miles22
Fox Hill3.2 miles24
Arkola3.5 miles24
Dill Place (historical)4.0 miles24
Dayton4.0 miles22
Crossroads4.6 miles22
Prairie Creek5.2 miles24

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 MansfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79613The 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 77591. 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.