BlockMontrose, Arkansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montrose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71658. The Survey maps it on the Montrose quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMontrose fell from 404 to 243 between 1920 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 404 | |
| 2010 | 354 | |
| 2020 | 243 | -111 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1936 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Lake Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Montrose between 2004 and 2006, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 January 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Tornado (EF2) | Montrose | $500,000 | The tornado began along US 165 between Portland and Montrose, where a few older utility poles were damaged and moved northwest across open fields, damaging additional utility poles along Ashley County Road 54. The tornado crossed US 82 near the Ashley/Chicot County line. At this location, the top of a silo was removed and the structure was bent, two homes sustained exterior damage with one losing a large amount of roofing material, a travel trailer was destroyed, and a couple of businesses sustained relatively minor structural damage. The tornado reached its peak intensity near this location, where two sets of wooden transmission poles were snapped as well as around 15 power poles. There was also considerable tree damage in the area. The tornado continued across Shelton Turner Road, where a home and mobile home sustained damage. The tornado crossed AR Highway 293, Slaughter Road, Beavers Road, and Lingo Road before lifting in west central Chicot County. Maximum estimated wind speed was 115 mph. Total path length was just under nine miles. |
| March 2016 | Flash Flood | Montrose | $100,000 | Numerous roads around the county were either underwater or washed out. Highway|133 north and 425 south near the Louisiana state line was closed. Evacuations of|residences occurred in both Crossett and Parkdale. US Highway 425 was closed south of Hamburg. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montrose | $50,000 | Families trapped in homes due to downed trees and powerlines on West 3rd street and West 2nd street in Montrose Arkansas. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montrose | $35,000 | A tree was blown down on a house in Montrose. |
| March 2016 | Flash Flood | Montrose | $25,000 | Extensive flooding occurred across the county with many roads flooded and closed along with several washed out. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montrose | $12,000 | Several trees were blown down across town, with one being blown across a railroad track and some powerlines were blown down. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montrose | $10,000 | Tractor trailer overturned, structure damage on Highway 82 west of Montrose Arkansas. |
| February 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Montrose | $1,000 | A tornado was seen on the ground over open country. This F0 tornado only stayed on the ground for a few minutes and did not hit any structures. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Montrose | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Montrose | - | A brief landspout tornado occurred near Montrose. Several photos and videos from the area showed a funnel cloud prior to the tornado occurring, and two photos documented the landspout after it developed. No damage was reported in the area, and the location is approximated based on a nearby strengthening shower at the time of occurrence. |
| December 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montrose | - | Two trees were blown down. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Montrose | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Montrose | - | 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.
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 Montrose | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79305 | 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 58209. 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.
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.