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Quitman, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72131. It stands on Yellow Bank Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quitman quadrangle. 694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Quitman within Cleburne County

On record in Quitman

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Quitman fell from 762 to 694 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
2010762
2020694-68 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

46 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Quitman between 1999 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2010Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use29 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quitman in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Tornado (F2)Quitman1 hurtA strong tornado moved from southeastern Van Buren County into southwestern Cleburne County about 2.5 miles west of Quitman. The tornado tracked quickly to the northeast, and removed the roofs of several houses. The tornado also destroyed a mobile home, a camper, a chicken house and a few barns and outbuildings. Several other chicken houses were damaged, as well as some vehicles. Hundreds of trees, power lines and power poles were downed. The tornado dissipated 5.5 miles north-northwest of Pearson.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindQuitman$125,000Eight houses suffered roof damage. Eight sheds, three barns, and two shop buildings were destroyed.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindQuitman$50,000Much of the metal roof was peeled off of a building.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindQuitman$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
February 2008LightningQuitman$20,000Lightning struck the school campus, causing damage to the school and surveillance system.
September 2008Flash FloodQuitman$10,000Several roads were flooded in Quitman. The roads were Cadron Creek Road, Bettis Road, Wesley Road, Tiger B Road and Antioch Road.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindQuitman$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindQuitman$5,000A tree and a power line were blown down near Quitman.
April 2021HailQuitman-Quarter sized hail was observed on Wesley Chapel Road.
April 2021HailQuitman-Ping pong ball sized hail was observed near Quitman.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindQuitman-A thunderstorm wind gust, estimated to be near 60 mph, took multiple trees down in and around Quitman.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindQuitman-A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down in Quitman (Cleburne County).
June 2013Funnel CloudQuitman-A funnel cloud was photographed near Quitman.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindQuitman-Trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindQuitman-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees, with some storage buildings damaged.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindQuitman-Thunderstorm winds downed trees, power lines and damaged the roof of a home at Quitman.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindQuitman-A large tree was blown down.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Quitman-A weak tornado touched down over southwest Cleburne County about 2 miles east-northeast of Quitman. Most of the damage that occurred were a number of trees that were blown down and large limbs snapped off quite a few other trees. Several homes sustained roof damage due to falling trees and shingles torn off. The tornado dissipated about 1.7 miles southwest of Heber Springs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindQuitman-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Several buildings suffered roof damage.
May 2001Tornado (F1)Quitman-An F1 tornado first touched down about 2 miles northeast of Quitman. Along the path of the tornado, a large metal barn was destroyed and another was badly damaged. Several other barns had portions of their tin roofs taken off. There were numerous trees blown down, along with some power lines and a couple of power poles. The worst damage appeared to be along Highway 16 just northwest of Highway 25 in the Pearson community. The tornado lifted one and a half miles east of Pearson.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindQuitman-Some trees were blown down.
May 2016HailQuitman-no account filed
July 2005HailQuitman-no account filed
December 2003HailQuitman-no account filed
March 2000HailQuitman-no account filed
April 1998HailQuitman-no account filed
December 1996HailQuitman-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindQuitman-no account filed
April 1996HailQuitman-no account filed
February 1996HailQuitman-no account filed
June 1995HailQuitman-no account filed
June 1994HailQuitman-no account filed
August 1993HailQuitman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Crossroads5.6 miles11
Pearson6.1 miles11
South Shore Park7.7 miles11
Hopewell8.0 miles11
Driftwood Shores8.5 miles11
Miller (historical)9.8 miles16
Shiloh (historical)11.2 miles15
Whispering Springs11.8 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 QuitmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79699The 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 53864. 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.

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.