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Natural Steps, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Big Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72135. It stands on Mill Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle. 413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.

Natural Steps within Pulaski County

On record in Natural Steps

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

Natural Steps fell from 426 to 413 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
2010426
2020413-13 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Natural Steps between 1997 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarism114 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Natural Steps: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone. 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
Saline-PulaskiAluminumPast ProducerGibbsite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolin, Magnetite, Pyrite, Siderite
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natural Steps in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Natural Steps1 hurt, $300,000This tornado exited Faulkner County 2.06 miles south of Palarm and re-entered Pulaski County 1.93 miles northeast of Natural Steps. In Pulaski County, the tornado badly damaged a small church, blew a tree down into a house, and knocked down numerous trees. The tornado crossed Interstate 40 in extreme northern Pulaski County. It exited Pulaski County north-northwest of Morgan and re-entered Faulkner County east-southeast of Mayflower.
July 2014Flash FloodNatural Steps$10,000A number of streets were flooded in Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Maumelle.
July 1994HailNatural Steps-A few trees were blown down.
April 2007HailNatural Steps-no account filed
October 2004Thunderstorm WindNatural Steps-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Catorce (historical)2.6 miles19
Pinnacle2.8 miles20
Mount Pilgrim2.9 miles19
Roland2.9 miles19
Maumelle Station3.8 miles20
Maumelle3.8 miles20
West Marche3.8 miles19
Monnie Springs4.0 miles19

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 Natural StepsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3248628The 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 52582. 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.