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Patmos, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bodcaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71801. The Survey maps it on the Patmos quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Patmos within Hempstead County

Population over time

3 figures

Patmos fell from 61 to 57 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.

YearPeople Change
200061
201064+3 (+5%)
202057-7 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

101 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Patmos between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead 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 Patmos: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patmos in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Patmos$60,000This was a continuation of the tornado which first touched down in northern Lafayette County. Damage consisted of several trees uprooted and damage to a chicken house. Damage occurred on Hwy 355 about 1 mile east of Hwy 29. A porch was torn off one brick home and one home suffered shingle damage. An 18-wheeler and a cattle trailer was overturned as well. The tornado was rated an EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Damage Indicator (DI): Small barns and outbuildings. Degree of Damage (DOD): Loss of wood or metal roofs.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Patmos$15,000Damage consisted of numerous snapped and fallen small trees. One barn was severely damaged and two chicken barns were destroyed.
January 2024Flash FloodPatmos-Numerous roads were flooded across Hempstead County.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindPatmos-Several trees were downed in and around the Patmos community.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPatmos-Numerous trees were downed north of Lewisville, Arkansas.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPatmos-A large oak tree was downed in the Patmos community.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindPatmos-Trees were downed along Highway 355 near Patmos, Arkansas.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPatmos-Several large trees down.
July 2009HailPatmos-no account filed
May 1994HailPatmos-no account filed
May 1994HailPatmos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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
Hennessey (historical)2.2 miles14
New Hope2.3 miles15
Sardis (historical)2.7 miles15
Alton (historical)3.7 miles15
Coler4.5 miles15
Evening Shade4.9 miles15
Spring Hill6.8 miles14
Shover Springs7.9 miles15

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 PatmosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3317123The 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 53213. 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.