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Rye, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hurricane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71665. The Survey maps it on the Wilmar North quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Rye within Cleveland County

Population over time

2 figures

Rye fell from 146 to 123 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
2010146
2020123-23 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

42 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Rye between 2001 and 2020, burning about 421 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
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Arson/incendiarism41 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2006Arson/incendiarism36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleveland 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 Rye: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleveland County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rye in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindRye1 hurtno account filed
January 2013Thunderstorm WindRye$250,000A microburst damaged three chicken houses, one severely, and two sheds. Several large pine trees were blown down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRye$200,000Trees and power lines were blown down, a barn and some sheds were destroyed, tin was blown off barns, shingles were blown off a house, and a TV antenna was blown off a house. One tree at a residence fell on a truck and a car, and destroyed a shed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRye$5,000Trees were blown down.
March 2026HailRye-Golf-ball sized hail fell in the town of Rye.
April 2021HailRye-Quarter sized hail was observed in Rye.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRye-The public reported multiple trees down in Rye.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRye-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and blew several pieces of tin off an abandoned chicken house.
February 2017HailRye-no account filed
April 2004HailRye-no account filed
March 2001HailRye-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindRye-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindRye-no account filed
April 1996HailRye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleveland 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
Annover (historical)1.9 miles10
McKinney (historical)3.4 miles12
Scoby (historical)4.7 miles13
Pansy5.2 miles12
Herbine5.5 miles12
Orlando7.8 miles13
Ripley (historical)8.0 miles12
Rowell9.7 miles12

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 RyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7384941The 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 57175. 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.