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Saint Joe, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Joe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72675. It stands on Saint Joe Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joe quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Saint Joe within Searcy County

On record in Saint Joe

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Joe fell from 132 to 129 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
2010132
2020129-3 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,942 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 66 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/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Debris and open burning25
Natural7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDUFFER
15 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAPLING
31 July 1995Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverNORTHSIDE
24 July 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresBuffalo National RiverHANGOVER BLUFF
18 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUCKET FIR
5 May 2014Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSEA27311610

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Saint Joe: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Buffalo River Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
CopperCopper, ZincProspect
UnkStonePast Producer
Fullbright ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Lockhart MineLead, ZincUnknown
Lucky Dog MineLeadUnknown
San Juan ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Uncle Sam ProsplectLead, ZincOccurrence
Big HurricaneZincPast Producer
Davy CrockettZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy 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
Push1.9 miles16
Duff3.0 miles16
Clutes (historical)4.3 miles16
Pindall4.8 miles16
Silver Hill5.1 miles17
Gilbert5.5 miles17
Tomahawk5.6 miles17
Woolum5.8 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 Saint JoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228804The 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 78237. 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.