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Sidney, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in West Sullivan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72577. The Survey maps it on the Sidney quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Sidney within Sharp County

Population over time

2 figures

Sidney grew from 181 to 192 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
2010181
2020192+11 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Sidney between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,060 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2010Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Debris and open burning75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sidney: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Manganese. 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
Hollawell ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Reichartz LandStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 1996Tornado (F3)Sidney$1,500,000no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindSidney$50,000A shed and a hay barn were destroyed, a travel trailer was turned upside down, tin was blown off three chicken houses, and a number of large trees were blown down.
September 2024HailSidney-Golf ball sized hail fell in the community of Sidney.
August 2024Heavy RainSidney-This report was from a mesonet station AW154 near Sidney.
May 2020HailSidney-Quarter size hail fell in Sidney.
July 2018Flash FloodSidney-Minor flash flooding was on roads in Sidney.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2000Tornado (F1)Sidney-A weak tornado affected areas near Sidney in Sharp County. The tornado touched down briefly, and tore a few roof shingles from a home. Some siding was damaged at another home. Otherwise, a few large trees were blown down.
April 2018HailSidney-no account filed
September 2006Funnel CloudSidney-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSidney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Maxville4.5 miles19
Evening Shade5.2 miles8
Amateur (historical)6.6 miles8
Cave City7.3 miles19
Balboa (historical)8.7 miles8
Poughkeepsie10.8 miles8
Aetna12.5 miles11
Center12.8 miles9

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 SidneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357897The 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 54838. 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.