Sedgwick, Arkansas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Promised Land Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72476. The Survey maps it on the Bono quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSedgwick grew from 112 to 163 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 112 | |
| 2010 | 152 | +40 (+36%) |
| 2020 | 163 | +11 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Sedgwick quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Bono quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sedgwick between 2003 and 2016, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 October 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 76 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedgwick in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Sedgwick | 2 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Sedgwick | 1 hurt, $10,000 | The tornado that started near Egypt in Craighead county continued to move northeast into Lawrence county. The tornado damaged one home in Lawrence county. A farm shop was destroyed. |
| February 2011 | Flash Flood | Sedgwick | $250,000 | Heavy rain produced flash flooding near Sedgwick. Several county roads were flooded near Highway 228 and Highway 63. Sections of pavement were swept away on Eighth Street in Black Rock. Highway 412 near Walnut Ridge was closed due to flooding. All low water crossings across Lawrence County were flooded. Bridge and culverts throughout the county have been damaged. |
| February 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedgwick | $40,000 | We received a report of a tree that fell on a house in Sedgwick. |
| February 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedgwick | $25,000 | A roof was partially blown off a mobile home and several trees and power lines were down on Cypress Street in Sedgwick. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedgwick | $20,000 | Numerous trees uprooted. Fence blown down. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Sedgwick | $10 | A tornado briefly touched down in Sedgwick causing little damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Sedgwick | - | Half-dollar sized hail in the community of Sedgwick. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sedgwick | - | Nickel size hail at Highway 63 in Sedgwick. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedgwick | - | A few trees down and a pool damaged in Sedgwick. |
| January 2012 | Hail | Sedgwick | - | Penny size hail fell in Sedgwick. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Sedgwick | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding across Lawrence County. Various back roads were flooded across the county. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sedgwick | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Sedgwick | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponders | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bessie (historical) | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hoxie | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Walnut Ridge | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Aa Junction | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lindsey | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dicus | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Minturn | 8.7 miles | 10 |
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 Sedgwick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233251 | The 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 58595. 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.






