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Perrytown, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in De Roan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71801. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Perrytown within Hempstead County

Population over time

2 figures

Perrytown fell from 272 to 232 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
2010272
2020232-40 (-15%)

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

59 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Perrytown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Perrytown: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Hope PitClayProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
Hempstead CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hickey Bros Service StationSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lavender PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Eastridge Addition1.2 miles15
Rocky Mound1.9 miles15
Hempstead Heights2.5 miles15
Magnolia Addition2.8 miles15
Holcomb Addition2.9 miles15
Hills of Hope3.1 miles15
Green Acres3.4 miles15
Hope3.5 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 PerrytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79511The 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 58349. 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.