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Pottsville, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72858. It stands on Cove Branch. The Survey maps it on the Holla Bend quadrangle. 3,140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Pottsville within Pope County

On record in Pottsville

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Pottsville grew from 1,271 to 3,140 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
20001,271
20102,838+1,567 (+123%)
20203,140+302 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

49 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Pottsville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. None 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning130 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Pottsville: 18 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Titanium. 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
Bernice QuarryStonePast Producer
Black-Sands DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Dierks Crystal Area No 6SilicaPast Producer
Shale PitClayUnknown
Shale PitClayUnknown
Shale PitClayUnknown
Cabot Sandstone OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Ferguson Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
New Hope QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pitts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pottsville in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 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
September 2009Thunderstorm WindPottsville$125,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed two poultry houses.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPottsville$50,000Metal roofing was removed from a row of businesses. Numerous trees were down or snapped.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindPottsville$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPottsville$30,000Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPottsville$25,000Trees, power lines, and street signs were blown down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPottsville$10,000Power lines were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPottsville$5,000Multiple tree limbs were downed with some damage to a roof.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPottsville-Large tree limb was blown down on West Ash Street in Pottsville.
January 2024HailPottsville-Quarter sized hail fell in the town of Pottsville, AR.
February 2023Flash FloodPottsville-A mudslide was reported along AR State Hwy. 363 between Phillips Rd. and Interstate 40 in Pottsville.
June 2023HailPottsville-Golf ball sized hail fell near Worthen.
February 2019Thunderstorm WindPottsville-Trees and power lines were down in Pottsville.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPottsville-Power lines were down on Crow Mountain.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPottsville-Construction barrels were blown around on Interstate 40.
April 2004Tornado (F1)Pottsville-A weak tornado moved from Yell County into southern Pope County. The tornado tracked through the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, and pushed over several trees. The tornado dissipated a little over 8 miles south of Pottsville.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPottsville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 2014HailPottsville-no account filed
April 2005HailPottsville-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
February 1999Tornado (F2)Pottsville-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
April 1999HailPottsville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindPottsville-no account filed
March 1996HailPottsville-no account filed
June 1995HailPottsville-no account filed
June 1994HailPottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Worthen1.4 miles19
Pisgah (historical)1.5 miles19
Bethel3.2 miles19
Mars Hill3.3 miles17
New Hope3.9 miles19
Bernice4.3 miles19
Russellville5.0 miles19
North Dardanelle5.1 miles21

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 PottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2106682The 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 78087. 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.