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Perry, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72125. It stands on Haydon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Perryville quadrangle. 262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Perry within Perry County

On record in Perry

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

3 figures

Perry fell from 314 to 262 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
2000314
2010270-44 (-14%)
2020262-8 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Perry between 1997 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning120 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Perry: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Copperas Gap Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
A. L. YoungManganeseUnknown
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Vaught ProspectManganeseProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindPerry$25,000Trees were down across the area.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPerry$5,000Power lines were blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPerry$2,000A large tree was blown down along Arkansas Highway 9.
August 2025Heavy RainPerry-CO-OP observer measured 3.75 inches of total rainfall in the community of Perry.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPerry-A tree was blown down across Hwy. 9 at Choctaw Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerry-A tree was blown down by the wind.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPerry-Numerous trees were reported down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPerry-Trees were down just north of Perry along Highway 9 by Cypress Creek.
April 2017Flash FloodPerry-Highway 10 and Smith Crossings Road west of Perry were reported flooded.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindPerry-A gust of 60 mph was estimated.
June 2016Flash FloodPerry-A trained spotter reported flooding along Highway 10 between Adona and Perry. Another spotter measured 3.25 inches of rain between 650 pm and 900 pm 2 miles north of the flooding on Highway 10.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindPerry-A few trees were reported down in and around Perry.
November 2015Flash FloodPerry-Several roads were closed throughout the county due to flooding.
May 2011Heavy RainPerry-One inch of rain fell in 17 minutes.
September 2009Heavy RainPerry-Perry broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of September.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPerry-Tree limbs were down.
June 2008Heavy RainPerry-About 3.25 inches of rain fell in a little less than an hour.
June 2008Heavy RainPerry-One and a half inches of rain fell in fifteen minutes.
June 2008Heavy RainPerry-About 2.25 inches of rain fell in 40 minutes.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindPerry-Large tree knocked down along Highway 9.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPerry-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
February 1998Flash FloodPerry-Heavy rains caused flash flooding in parts of Perry. High water covered several streets in town for a period of time.
April 2015HailPerry-no account filed
March 2010HailPerry-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPerry-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPerry-no account filed
June 1996HailPerry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Sweet Home2.6 miles18
Perryville3.0 miles18
Moab (historical)3.7 miles17
Copperas Gap (historical)3.9 miles17
Houston5.4 miles17
Adona5.5 miles18
Cherry Hill5.8 miles15
Antioch6.5 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 PerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3317161The 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 53287. 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.