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.
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
- Maumelle River Bridgelisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresNatural 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 426 | |
| 2020 | 413 | -13 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 20 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.
- 1891 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Camp Pike quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Pinnacle Mtn quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Pinnacle Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
64 since 1997Regional 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/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 114 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saline-Pulaski | Aluminum | Past Producer | Gibbsite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolin, Magnetite, Pyrite, Siderite | |
| Unk | Stone | Unknown |
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Natural Steps | 1 hurt, $300,000 | This 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Natural Steps | $10,000 | A number of streets were flooded in Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Maumelle. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Natural Steps | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Natural Steps | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Natural Steps | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catorce (historical) | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Pinnacle | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Mount Pilgrim | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Roland | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Maumelle Station | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Maumelle | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| West Marche | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Monnie Springs | 4.0 miles | 19 |
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 Steps | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3248628 | 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 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.













