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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.

Sedgwick within Lawrence County

Population over time

3 figures

Sedgwick 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.

YearPeople Change
2000112
2010152+40 (+36%)
2020163+11 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2003

Regional 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/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 November 2016Debris and open burning21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 October 2004Arson/incendiarism76 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Tornado (F3)Sedgwick2 hurt, $500,000no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Sedgwick1 hurt, $10,000The 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 2011Flash FloodSedgwick$250,000Heavy 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 2022Thunderstorm WindSedgwick$40,000We received a report of a tree that fell on a house in Sedgwick.
February 2022Thunderstorm WindSedgwick$25,000A roof was partially blown off a mobile home and several trees and power lines were down on Cypress Street in Sedgwick.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindSedgwick$20,000Numerous trees uprooted. Fence blown down.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Sedgwick$10A tornado briefly touched down in Sedgwick causing little damage.
August 2023HailSedgwick-Half-dollar sized hail in the community of Sedgwick.
May 2017HailSedgwick-Nickel size hail at Highway 63 in Sedgwick.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSedgwick-A few trees down and a pool damaged in Sedgwick.
January 2012HailSedgwick-Penny size hail fell in Sedgwick.
May 2010Flash FloodSedgwick-Heavy rain produced flash flooding across Lawrence County. Various back roads were flooded across the county.
April 2015HailSedgwick-no account filed
May 2013HailSedgwick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Ponders2.4 miles14
Bessie (historical)6.9 miles11
Hoxie7.7 miles14
Walnut Ridge7.9 miles14
Aa Junction8.1 miles14
Lindsey8.1 miles10
Dicus8.3 miles14
Minturn8.7 miles10

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 SedgwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233251The 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.