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Ratcliff, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Six Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72951. The Survey maps it on the Branch quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Ratcliff within Logan County

On record in Ratcliff

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

2 figures

Ratcliff fell from 202 to 167 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
2010202
2020167-35 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

43 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ratcliff between 1997 and 2017, burning about 519 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ratcliff: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Dixie Stone CoFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ratcliff in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Ratcliff$25,000This is the second segment of a six-segment tornado. (The first, third, and fifth segments occurred in Franklin County in the Tulsa County Warning Area.) The tornado moved out of Franklin County east-northeast of Branch and entered Logan County 2.17 miles west-northwest of Ratcliff. The tornado clipped a small corner of Logan County, snapping and uprooting trees. The tornado then exited Logan County 1.86 miles northwest of Ratcliff and moved back into Franklin County south-southeast of Peter Pender.
April 2022HailRatcliff-Golf ball size hail was reported on the Logan/Franklin county line west of Ratcliff.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRatcliff-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and knocked down a radio tower.
April 2004HailRatcliff-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindRatcliff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Caulksville1.1 miles19
Carbon City4.9 miles19
Chismville7.0 miles22
Gray Rock7.7 miles20
Roseville7.7 miles19
Driggs7.7 miles22
Brownsville7.8 miles22
Paris8.2 miles20

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 RatcliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79674The 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 58462. 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.