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Rosston, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Caney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71858. The Survey maps it on the Willisville quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Rosston within Nevada County

On record in Rosston

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

3 figures

Rosston grew from 265 to 272 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
2000265
2010261-4 (-2%)
2020272+11 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

79 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Rosston between 1997 and 2020, burning about 753 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burning36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rosston: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
E IngramSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mccrea PropertyIronPast Producer
Rosston DepositsIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosston in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
January 1999Thunderstorm WindRosston$30,000Numerous trees downed. Minor damage to one church and two homes.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindRosston$20,000Damage to houses from fallen trees.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindRosston$10,000Trees downed near Rosston, Arkansas. Other trees were downed along Hwy 278 in Nevada County. A vehicle struck a downed tree and the accident resulted in two injuries.
January 1998HailRosston$10,000Trees were also pushed over along Hwy 371. Minor damage to homes was reported. Hail was three inches deep downtown.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRosston-Reports of widespread damage and trees downed across Nevada County.
February 2020HailRosston-Quarter size hail fell along Highway 278 just southeast of Rosston.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRosston-Trees and powerlines were downed across the entire county.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindRosston-Large tree limbs and other debris was scattered across Hwy. 371 south of Rosston, Arkansas.
March 2008HailRosston-Quarter to golfball sized hail on the outskirts of town.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Rosston-AN EF1 tornado with wind speeds between 90 and 100 mph touched down briefly in a heavily wooded area along CR 36 about 2 miles west southwest of Rosston. The tornado then moved east southeast through a mainly wooded area before lifting 1 mile south of Rosston just east of U.S. 371. Over the path...several oaks and pine trees were uprooted or snapped.
July 2007Flash FloodRosston-Flash flooding was reported by postal officials leading into and away from town.
May 2004HailRosston-Hail fell between Lanesburg and Rosston.
May 2004Flash FloodRosston-Many roads flooded across much of the county. Hwy 371 was barricaded near the Mount Moriah church community.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRosston-Several large trees down.
February 1995HailRosston-Dime-sized hail covered the ground.
July 1994HailRosston-Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
July 1994HailRosston-Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
May 2015HailRosston-no account filed
May 2014HailRosston-no account filed
April 2012HailRosston-no account filed
April 2011HailRosston-no account filed
May 2007HailRosston-no account filed
August 2005HailRosston-no account filed
May 2004HailRosston-no account filed
October 2000HailRosston-no account filed
June 1997HailRosston-no account filed
October 1996HailRosston-no account filed
April 1996HailRosston-no account filed
September 1996HailRosston-no account filed
January 1995HailRosston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Oak Grove1.9 miles16
Irma2.6 miles15
Cale3.0 miles16
New Mount Moriah (historical)3.0 miles15
Ames3.4 miles16
Mount Moriah3.8 miles15
Waterloo3.8 miles16
Brisbane (historical)3.9 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 RosstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2034955The 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 54227. 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.